Jess's Lab Notebook

Lab Notebook

Evergreen Notes

"Setups" as process inefficiency

"Tools for Thought" have many different mediums

10 Ways LLMs Could Help Reading

A computational language is designed to help us think computationally

A pattern language for a new computing environment

A place for everything and everything in its place

A protocol is a specification describing the behavior of a software system

Accretive versus ephemeral tools

Activating the next wave of computing pioneers

All software adoption at scale is social

An NFT can act as a software license

Annotations and Markdown

Applied research

Architect the environment where one can accomplish goals merely by being in sync with one's surroundings

Being an Effective Executive

Blockchains are a decentralized computation layer

Blockchains are not just for money

Bounded Contexts, Event-driven Architecture, and Communication Across Boundaries

Buddy Session Practices

Build In Order to Learn In Order to Build

Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools

Building Systems

Cezanne’s Sketches

Changes to an interface are fundamental changes to a things existence

Characteristics of Goods

Collaboration is a spectrum from asynchronous to fully synchronous

Collective Compensation

Computational Canvas

Computational Thinking

Computers are a material

Computers are a platform for tools for thinking

Computers are like paper

Computers Can Be Better

Computers should enable robust collaborative experiences

Computers should help us think better, together

Computers should represent knowledge using models and simulations

Computing in 50 years

Conspiracy Theories and Circular Logic

Conversational Note-Taking

Covenental Epistemology

Creating the League

Creator Economy

Customer Discovery

Customer Pain Scale Ranking

Data and Interpreters

Data-Centric Manifesto

Decentralized business models allow for a different flow of capital

Decentralized Identity

Declarative Programming

Designing Product Experiences

Developer Priority for a Technology Website

Digital Analog Divide

Digital gardens exist only to enable the production of singular works

Digital Gardens

Discover and disseminate generalizable insights

Education is a complex system of interrelated concerns

Education is a values-directed activity

Embodied Computing

Evergreen Note-taking

Everything Apps

Experimental Test Pilot

Explorable Explanations

Extensible Software Project

Extitutional Theory

Favor regional variations over period

Favor workflows that encourage time spent in the resulting environment

Files are the future

Fixed Position Windows for Productivity

For peer-to-peer software, "online" and "offline" are about access to specific peers and services

Framework Versus Library

Framing as perspective

Free Will vs Pre-determinism

Funding Public Goods

Future of Development Infrastructure

Future of Programming

Games as Simulations

Gamification of note-making

Generation as a learning technique

Growing a garden of partial thoughts

Growth Company or Product

Growth is a poor goal for economic success

Hardware Hacking

Heilmeier Catechism

Heirloom Computing

History and Future of Computing Course

How is git not a blockchain

How to Research

Human factors limit visual perception

Incremental Note-taking

Independent researcher

Industrial Research Lab

Information Theory

Interesting inbounds as a measure of research success

Javascript as a platform

Jobs To Be Done

Knowledge Representation

Knowledge Work & Productivity

Learn a tool by observing the tool in use

Limitations on the nature of the computing material

List of mediums employed by tools for thought

List of Software Tools for Collaboration Experiences

List of software tools for thought

Live Programming Environments

Live updating notebook website

Mapping the future of computing

Measuring Personal Learning

Mechanism design

Medium for thinking

Mediums have a grain that constrains their capabilities

Misconception-Oriented Pedagogy

Monologue Channels

Multiplayer note-taking

New Programming Interfaces

NFTs are ecosystems

No code and full code a middle ground?

Not Quite Enough Process

Notation as a collaboration tool

Notes on an organization system

Notes on Local-first Software

Notes represent durable knowledge objects

On Belief and Truth

On Designing a System-in-Context

Organizations Funding Transformative Research

Organizing one’s work under the auspices of a company provides specific advantages over independent research

Outliners are a medium for thinking

Pace Layers for Software

Parametric Design Tools

Pattern Languages

Pedagogical Patterns

Peer-to-peer, local-first apps are simpler to build than client-server apps due to a simpler architecture

Personal Search Engine

Pop-up newsletters as time-bound commitments

Possibility Space

Principles of Organization for a Workspace

Product Management

Program as Code

Programs as a medium for thinking

Progress Studies

Provocations as a singular work

Provocations produce action

Quantum Computing

Queues and personal infrastructure

R-Selection versus K-Selection

Radical New Operating Systems

Rapid changes in computing interface considered harmful

Reactive Programming

Realtime Collaborative Systems

Reimagining Computing as an Academic Discipline

Reinventing the Book

ReMarkable Tablet Workflow

Requirements for a Note-taking Tool

Research is an orientation that can be directed at any subject

Research is just learning that pushes past the edges of human knowledge

Schemas define the shape of data

Selling The Product Before You Build It

Sentence Prompt

Shiny Object Syndrome (SOS)

Signal flare is a public artifact that attracts like-minded thinkers

Socratic Method

Software Engineering

Software Estimation

Software has a grain to it

Sort papers by importance and relevance

Spaced Repetition Systems

Spatial Interfaces

Spreadsheets and Databases

Standoff Markup

Standoff Properties Working Group

Sustainability and Maintaining Systems

Sustainable versus Extractive

Systems Thinking

The DevRel Diamond

The Distributed Schema Problem

The Everything Page

The Everything Queue

The Home Page problem

The Levels of Work

The Role of Experimentation in Inventing Novel User Interfaces

The same organism at different scales is a different organism

Thinking is a spiral, not a straight line

Thinking is communicating

Tools for Thought

Transformer Models

Visual Code Editing

Weekly Updates enable consistent progress on research

What does a result look like in future of computing research?

What kind of thinking is native to the digital realm?

Why make notes?

Will there be more programming languages in the future or less?

Work Assessment Framework

Work in serial, not in parallel

Workflow Automation

Working Out Loud

You know something when you can recall and apply the knowledge in an appropriate context

Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Zoomable User Interface

Projects

Research Pipeline

Resources

About this lab notebook

My Writings

Readwise

weekly-newsletters

Pace Layering

See Pace Layers for Software

Expanded in Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn
Originally, Duffy formulated shearing layers:

Pace Layering

Interactive graph

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Pace Layering