2024 Week 51 - Weekly Notes

In the margins of books

In the book on how to read a book (Mortimer and Alder), here’s some strategies they employ:

1. Underlining - For me, it’s highlighting the lines that resonate with me
2. Vertical lines at the margin - Honestly, this isn’t something I run into for underlining a multi-line passage because highlighting using a digital book is a lot easier
3. Star, asterisk, or other doodad at the margin - This is the step after highlighting to determine which pieces of highlights continue to resonate after the first insight.
4. Numbers in the margin - Originally to indicate the sequence in which an argument is developed, might be a good notation for anything subsequent enforcing an argument.
5. Numbers of other pages in the margin - This is making reference to another highlight. Some people use Cf to be a “compare from”. It’s a reference mark.
6. Circling of key words or phrases - This serves much the same function as underlining.
7. Writing in the margin, or at the top or bottom of the page - the words or notes around the books. This could be questions and answers (like Oxford notes), the major points, reflections, related to other pieces of writing.

Something something, AI

egghead.io’s Tutorial - Use Gemini 2.0 to Create Agent Instructions to Refactor an Entire Codebase

Turing Post - 🌁#80: What’s in 2025? From Elad Gil, François Chollet, Maxime Labonne, swyx and others

Local Shut-downs

Oakland cocktail bar Kon-Tiki lashes out on Instagram

All the UUIDs

eieio.games does it again! - Writing down (and searching through) every UUID

2024 Photo Recap

• The New York Times - The Year in Pictures 2024: Far From Ordinary

Map it out

Hello, Jesus

It Pays to Have Long Hair and a Beard in Utah—Jesus Models Are in Demand

Flash the cards

SuperMemo - Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge

I finally bought Anki, and looking at different ways to make the flashcards better. I’m at the rote memorization phase of learning Mandarin, so I’ve been figuring out what content to put on there, especially to help with grammar, word position, and vocabulary. I’m starting to graduate from words to coming up with my own sentences.

Recommended

Book - The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne

KCRW - Guide - Cookbooks - The best cookbooks of 2024, according to Celia Sack (Good Food podcast)