Andy Matuschak note-taking app. Orbit helps you deeply internalize ideas through periodic review. (SRS) https://withorbit.com/ (more)

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Annotation/Blog Comment that is associated with a specific Paragraph (Paragraph Addressable), and appears next to it in the Margin. (more)

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Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 8/05: Much Ado About Nothing. Getting into the weeds on the CDC’s new guidance and scaremongering, and the study they cited as justifications, caused this week’s post to get rather long. That was necessary, but if you don’t need the details, by all means skip the sections in question in favor of this summary: The CDC’s failure to apply Bayes’ rule, correct for base rates or locate sufficiently large or remotely representative samples knows few if any bounds, and their conclusions are still mostly the same conclusions my model had reached weeks ago. Very little has changed. Our new model of Delta variant is almost entirely the same as our old model of Delta. (more)

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Andy Matuschak says Close open loops | Inboxes only work if you trust how they’re drained | Triage strategies for maintaining inboxes (e.g. Inbox Zero) are often too brittle | Software interfaces often harmfully frame destructive operations as final decisions, not contingent preferences. (more)

Andy Matuschak: The early mnemonic medium offers readers little agency. Readers of the Mnemonic medium (as deployed on Quantum Country and initial versions of Orbit) are put on quite a rigid track: they’re expected to interact with all questions: (more)

Alex Kotliarskyi: TODO-list apps are meant for robots. I’ve tried a dozen todo apps.. I start using the new app, then after awhile I stop using it. (more)

Antifragile Writing with Roam Research. How many notes and ideas get aisle, lost, or broken in what we write in our journal, notebooks, drafts, documents. or apps? (more)

Stowe Boyd: Wrestling with the Angel of Death. In Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t, Clive Thompson finds a lot wrong with how we approach task/work management, but he simply accepts a lot of preconceptions without really examining them, I feel. ((2021-07-28) Thompson Hundreds Of Ways To Get Shit Done, and We Still Don't) (more)

Scott Alexander: Joint Over- and Underdiagnosis. Today I had several more terrible lectures on ADHD. (more)

Andy Matuschak: Release valves for non-linear thought may support improved linear output. By making non-linear structures available for work-in-progress (WIP), you create a release valve for tangential thought—which in turn can free the author to focus on their “primary” line of thinking.

Andy Matuschak: Reflections on 2020 as an independent researcher. 2020 was my second year as an “independent researcher.” (more)

Andy Matuschak on Modafinil. I suffered from excessive daytime drowsiness throughout 2018; after working with my doctor to try a dozen different solutions, taking 200mg modafinil daily was finally what fixed the problem. I stopped taking it in early 2020 and the drowsiness has not returned. Probably I fell into some weird physiological local minimum, and the drug helped knock me out of it. (more)

Epsilon Theory framing. Information that everyone knows that everyone knows. (more)

How big media outlets screwed up the vaccine ‘breakthrough’ story. Late Thursday, the Washington Post landed what looked like a big scoop: the paper obtained an unpublished slide presentation from inside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggesting that the Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads as easily as chickenpox, and that fully vaccinated people who become infected with the variant may be able to pass it on in a way similar to unvaccinated people who become infected. (more)

COVID-19 Breakthrough Infections, Explained. You may actually have heard about this big cluster in Provincetown, Massachusetts. They have this massive 4th of July celebration every year. And this year, apparently, was even more massive than usual — longer lines, more crowded bars, more partying. And at the end of it, there were a lot of infections — 256 right now. And about 2/3 of them were among people who had been vaccinated. (more)