Summer Knowledge Challenge 2014
This year, I read Justice for Hedgehogs1 by Ronald Dworkin. In philosophy, ethics was always my favorite topic. In fact, I always was into most of the topics of practical philosophy. I heard about the book a few times already and I thought it’d be great to extract knowledge from a contemporary author’s work for my Zettelkasten. Also, people said Dworkin is kind of resurrecting a Socratic take on morality, so I was intrigued from the start.
These are the posts so far in chronological order:
- I create a plan and read the book: skim for basic understanding first, take Zettel notes from your first findings, then read selectively for deeper understanding.
- After skimming the book, I create topic clusters and prepare the project.
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How I Prepare to Work on a Research and Writing Project
This post has moved to Zettelkasten.de. Read it there.
How do I deal with reading and research projects for University? I plan and prepare the work. This is the second post of the Summer Knowledge Challenge: here, I tell you about the first step, extracting reading notes from Justice for Hedgehogs and preparing the project. The procedure I describe applies to other University assignments and writing projects as well.
Challenge: Apply the Knowledge Cycle to Reading a Single Book
This post has moved to Zettelkasten.de. Read it there.
I plan to write a long term paper at University later this year. It’s going to be about the book Justice for Hedgehogs1 by Ronald Dworkin, and I’ll be able to mostly work with this single source exclusively. Consequently, there won’t be much additional research. How does the Knowledge Cycle apply if you read a book and don’t do research? I invite you to take the “Summer Knowledge Challenge” and find out with me.
Calendar Paste.app development notes (Series)
When I developed my iPhone event template builder Calendar Paste, I took a lot of notes during development. In 68 plain text files I collected everything I’ve learned during the planning, design, programming and marketing process of the app.