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Write down the definitions of words with citations into a kind of personal glossary, drilling down until I have a concrete understanding. I typically put the de
by burnished 3y ago
Write down the definitions of words with citations into a kind of personal glossary, drilling down until I have a concrete understanding. I typically put the definitions into a spreadsheet, one column being a direct quote from the reference and another being my own definition - this is typically more like color commentary and connects to other concepts or even just journals my own journey of exploration.
I check it first for word (or acronym) definitions and it reinforces the whole thing.
I have found it effective for doing deep dives into academic topics (so many medical research papers) and tech.
- randoglando 3y agoCan you share a sample?
- burnished 3y agoActually no, as it turns out, I don't have 'the good ones' anymore - or at least not conveniently searchable in some cloud storage and instead on some specific machine somewhere. But a sample row of an older version is APDU Application Layer Protocol Data Units, the actual packet on the network. Max size specified by device Max_APDU_Length_Accepted parameter, one of two alternatives to NSDU later versions would simply have copy and pasted the relevant text from the source into a different column and the URL into another column - I would still use zotero as a citation manager it was simply convenient if I needed to go back to the source to review context. The core features are present here though: a definition some context that I thought was important, how I understood the thing itself.