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The rest of Paul Bourke's website is also very cool, so don't miss it!
by peapicker 14y ago
The rest of Paul Bourke's website is also very cool, so don't miss it!
- evoxed 14y agoI was hoping someone else would say this. Some time ago I stopped bookmarking sites in the browser, relying instead on the principle of "if it's important, it's memorable"... then I stumbled upon Paul Bourke's page (while looking for a document/date overview for MacPerpective of all things).
- confluence 14y agoI call it the 3-interest rule. If something comes up that I find really intriguing 3 times in a row from 3 independent and reliable sources (books/wiki/long form article/comments) - then I go into deep investigative mode. I try to soak up as much as I can - not bothering too much with bookmarks because I'll never come back to it in that fashion (I'm driven by slow-burning interests/big problems in my field I always think about coupled with short bursts of deep random investigation into diverse fields that aren't my forte) and trying to integrate as much as I can within my current mental models before moving on to other subjects and only returning when the 3-interest rule is breached once more (it always has with everything I've investigated). For example: Automation and the reversal of globalisation has come up a few times from various high signal-low volume sources so I went in deep and have concluded that China is dead and the future doesn't need humans - at all (extinction level event). I just kinda fell into this mode, and this had some effect on my habits: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html