philosophy of this site

Philosophia

The raison d'être (🥖💋) of this site is (1) to store my knowledge in some external medium, and (2) be a scratchpad for thought.

1: Personnal Knowledge Management

The “PKM” on the left hand, where it says “Sina’s PKM” stand for Personnal Knowledge Management, which is basically just a process for storing new knowledge. The wikipedia article kinda sucks though (parenthetical citations, seriously?).

In case you're not up to date on this trend, it's a bit of zeitgeist thing to do in tech/researcher sphere. Some people call it creating your "second brain" or having a "zettelkasten" or a "personal wiki".

Basically, its mix of principles and systems on how to take good notes. I've tried to take notes on it (how meta).

The idea is that if you follow the above principles, you'll benefit yourself by making connections (because of all the linking) and you'll benefit others by sharing knowledge.

In addition to the stubby-toe-size wiki objective-style notes, I want this to be a dumping ground for more nuanced thought, like things people would actually read.

I hope to make partially formed thoughts here and move them to my blog when I get the chance.