The Scott Scheper Podcast

Scott's Very Own "Theory of Everything" for How Society Works (plus Whether or Not You Should Digitize Your Zettelkasten's Index)

August 10, 2021 Scott Scheper Episode 203
The Scott Scheper Podcast
Scott's Very Own "Theory of Everything" for How Society Works (plus Whether or Not You Should Digitize Your Zettelkasten's Index)
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Scott's Very Own "Theory of Everything" for How Society Works (plus Whether or Not You Should Digitize Your Zettelkasten's Index)

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Speaker 1
[00:01]
Hey what's up front welcome back to another episode of the daily scratch upper today's episode is number two oh three it's being recorded and streamed from Little Italy San Diago California on a Tuesday at four ten PM what we are going to jump into today is where I left off yesterday and I'm going to share with you the reason why. And it may surprise some of you that I don't have a one hundred percent analog anti net. And if you're just tuning in you're gonna need to. 

[00:36]
I shop on. What an anti net is and what is that Costin is an essentially what we're doing is building a second brain okay you can check out. My previous episodes probably if you listen to the last I don't know ten you'll be caught up to speed on where we are at right now and it essentially. But it revolves around a journey that. Well I am on and I'm helping other people on. That entails. Implementing a system of managing your own knowledge your own reading knowledge and your own ideas in such a way that you're able to become a publication machine you're able to create genius level work. 

[01:26]
And. One of my main contentions and feces is that. Well. Analog. And the actual act of writing by hand. Is. Something that should not be removed. And replaced with digital when you think on paper there's something. That happens which researchers have found and backed in that one gains a far deeper understanding of the concept and gets the concept essentially neuro imprinted on their mind in such a way that. Writing via. Keyboard and typing does not. 

[02:16]
Compete with and it's not even close. And here's the thing in yesterday's episode I left off by telling you that well. For my bibliography. Part of my. Internet. I actually do not use. In analog form such as an index card that looming used. And the reason is. The center is. On the fact that. How I learned the. Anti net and first stumbled upon it. The the book that I read simply said that. Well. Quote. I strongly recommend that you use a free program like Zotero. 

[03:18]
And that is all of the instruction that it provided for me on how to actually build the bibliography portion of the internet and so quite frankly I'd zero idea for how to actually build a bibliography without using a tool like Zotero. And. That is essentially what some K. R. ins is tutorial was on creating your own reference system A. K. A. a bibliography it was no more than a quote. On page thirty of his book. In the the gospel of a Renzi in notes according to our our ins. 

[04:03]
That. Eight reference system. And is a strong here's basically his point. He strongly recommends one to use quote a free program like Sotero on page thirty and that's really essentially all. He has to say about how to build your own reference system so I had no idea actually how to build a reference system I do now because I've gone through the archives of lumens. Anti net end. As of yesterday I've just begun experimenting with creating the bibliography the reference management system in analog form and I can tell you. 

[04:52]
For regular books that you read it's fantastic. I will say that for capturing and documenting online websites and web pages I think so Tero is still. The preferred tool or whatever bibliography software that you wish to use and that is because you're able to capture a local version of the web page and also it's like you don't want to write out H. T. T. P. S. colon slash slash and then some. Very extensive and long. Website address U. R. L. And I think that is impractical. 

[05:36]
However. For. Actual. Regular real books I think that. It is indeed important to you. Crate and manager owner bibliography in your own analog internet and all talk on that later but I want to jump back to the. The topic of. Why I do not foresee. Integrating in moving. To. A digital format for my index meeting. When you think of your knowledge tree when you think of your mind you need to. You first start with a keyword or key terms that you think of in your head. 

[06:32]
For the idea or for the concept and. This part of your brain this is the index and this is part of your anti net is the index. And as I said yesterday. I could actually. For C. Someone and even perhaps even lumen even experimenting with a digital version of the index such as will creating it in excel or in another alphabetized type of database. To allow you to navigate your mind in your knowledge tree your second mind essentially in your internet. 

[07:16]
And by the way those terms I use somewhat interchangeably but the overall goal is to actually create a second mind almost like you would really have a a second. Mind out there. Captured in. Well a new card box in a new car tree which I use the term anti net which is. Analog. Note thinking internet. Or some other acronym that is a close variant of that. Now. Yesterday I touched upon how. I don't foresee myself switching to from analog and analog index which is what I currently use today to you a digital index and. 

[08:10]
The second reason for that. Is that. I actually. Somehow developed and stumble upon an evolved. A version of the index which has proven to be quite useful and beneficial for managing the the key terms. And. It's been beneficial. Without it becoming a burden and running into the problem of well having to sort things out for medically. You see instead of attempting to have all of the let's say a key term for like the key terms for like that begin with a right set of having all of the eighties on a card for the larger concepts that have like multiple noteworthy network no card ideas across branches of my anti net. 

[09:08]
So. If I have a concept that I know. Will be explored extensively by myself and I know it will be. Extensively explored across various different branches of my mind. For instance like the concept of authenticity all right authenticity. Is a concept that. Has uses within. Black mass persuasion in marketing and then there is the key to dating relationships is authenticity which is a different branch and so you're gonna have. Two separate entries essentially that points to different. 

[09:59]
Areas of your knowledge treat different branches you know like the mass persuasion and marketing branch and the dating branch and the relationship branch right and. There will be. The separate authenticity entries. And H. authenticity entry will be. Laced within each branch right. So if I know that authenticity is going to be a big concept then instead of listing it and this massive list on a four by six inch index card down a list. I instead create a dedicated separate three by five index card and at the top of it it says authenticity on the three by five index card. 

[10:52]
And. What is the. But more practical straightforward illustration. Say I have. A lot of important aspects in. Research on the concept of risk. And in this case. I would create a three by five inch. No card dedicated entirely to risk at the top it would say risk just like authenticity. And it's sub entries you can find its cross references across different branches and other fields in different contexts for instance. At the top it says risk and then one entry would be. 

[11:41]
Risk and awareness and readiness. And then it would list the actual. Fixed I. D. address for the new card for instance like three three three dash ten E. nine D. nineteen D. N. yeah that's where you can find it in your knowledge tree. And don't go cross eyed or get confused about those numbers it's actually pretty freaking easy once you once you learn it. Another example would be you'd find another entry there it would be like risk and media and then the address would be thirty two slash three G. 

[12:21]
slash three N. And then another entry would be risk and decisions and then. That value for its fixed ID address would be something like you know three dash ten D. right and so. You have one car dedicated to risk it allows you to just grow with that one without having to actually re sort and alphabetize. And create like this massive list that it's hard to manage. Now. Before I give myself too much credit for devising this. Evolution of the index and. 

[13:05]
Basically lumens system. And before you write off this idea in other words as something that looming didn't do and probably he did do for a good reason. You should also know one thing. And that is this. Six. Lumen actually did precisely what I have just outlined in fact the example on risk. That is actually taken from lumens anti net himself. And. I will provide you with you the source of where you can find that. In the written version of whatever this work turns out to be which is probably gonna be a book or some other publication and you'll get it in the written format. 

[14:02]
But real quick. The reason why. Lumen did not do. The dedicated three by five inch no card. Is that he was constantly paranoid about the size of his anti net. You see he built his with the explicit plan of using it for thirty years and. He planned to do such as he built his theory of everything for the entire field. Of how society works. And with the limited space available in his office which from photographs we can actually see his office and it's quite literally smaller than Kim Kardashian's closet will act and and actually know this I'm not referring to her main closet mind you I'm referring to her handbag closet and yes. 

[15:07]
She has a closet for handbags and you can find a picture of it which I will provide to you the on the footnotes and while the written version of this and you can find up a picture of her handbag closet and you know you'll notice that on the floor there is. Bunch of handbags and purses just. UP thrown about that total. Ording to one article more than one hundred thousand dollars. And that's probably a hundred thousand dollars per person. And so. Basically lumens office was smaller than Kim Kardashian's hand back off or closet or office whatever it is right. 

[15:57]
So indeed if you are working on a thirty year long quest to provide human society with an understanding of itself for the first time in history meeting and understanding what society even as. And. If your available space to do so is smaller than Kim Kardashian's handbag closet then you may want to condense your index card entries to one card comprised of an alphabetical list kind of like what limited. Kind of like a dictionary essentially. Otherwise I think you're gonna be safe to use and create a three by five inch index card for your key concepts for the ones that have a lot of. 

[16:44]
Contextual different connotations across different branches in your brain. And. On the subject of Nicolas Lubin creating a. Area of society for. Thirty years on how society works. I think that with my illustration of Kim Kardashian's handbag closet engulfing lumens office in terms of size and well status and. Stature then. I actually have stumbleupon end. I think I have created my very own theory of everything for society. And well my theory of everything for society can be summarized. 

[17:34]
In the very fact that. An intellectual mind of Nicolas lumens stature. Was. So confined. That well. He was so confined that society deems. It natural and fine for resources to be allocated to. Some. Check. Probably. Can't spell. Well I don't see that actually found out can this now I'm revealing height I think I've stumbled upon because you know in the. The rare times that actually search TMZ in well decide to. Even out the building up my brain cells by absolutely destroying my brain cells by reading TMZ in gossip actually discovered that I think she. 

[18:38]
Studied for the bar and maybe passed an insult so maybe she can read okay and spell so I don't wanna do writer to unfairly but the very fact is that. Handbag closet is freaking the larger in bigger Indian golf's. The office that Niklas Luhmann had such that he could not actually create. Three by five index cards like I do because he was so limited on space. That my friend is my theory of society and that should show you well. What society is. So on that note I'm gonna head out of here and. 

[19:21]
Well leave you be but not first without making you aware that you should always remember to stay crispy my friend Scott shepherd signing off four twenty nine PM. See you tomorrow.
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