This entry is part of 3 in the series Information OverloadInformation, in the relatively narrow modern sense, used to be expensive, so simply having it was more or less equivalent (or, at the very least, directly correlated to) wealth and power. At one time, merely possessing a marginally accurate map of some subset of the…
A New Way of Taking Book Notes (Beyond Visual Information Overload)
by khatzumoto
This entry is part of 3 in the series Information OverloadSo, I’ve spilled quite a bit of digital ink on the subject of how to read books effectively. There was this thing I once wrote about called the “URP” (Unified Reading Process). In my relative intellectual immaturity, I expected it to be quite literally be…
Why Information Overload Isn’t A Real Thing
by khatzumoto
This entry is part of 3 in the series Information Overload So, I forget where it was I read it, but some smart, insightful, Clay Shirky-ish type of guy (whenever someone says something iconoclastic, I picture some combination of Ken Wilbur and/or Clay Shirky and/or Professor Xavier from the 1990s “X-Men” cartoon series about 60~80%…
Why Everything Is Everything: Jeff Hawkins On Intelligence (With Apologies to Lauryn Hill)
by khatzumoto
This entry is part of 10 in the series What Shogi [Japanese Chess] Can Teach You About Languages, Learning and LifeWay back in 2005, computer scientist Jeff Hawkins produced…I’m not so hot with the adjectives but I’m just going to call it an unbelievably awesome book called “On Intelligence”. Although I only discovered it many…
Thinking Aloud: Shogi is Essentially a Language
by khatzumoto
This entry is part of 10 in the series What Shogi [Japanese Chess] Can Teach You About Languages, Learning and LifeIt’s a set of symbols and patterns… Experienced chess players (of all variants) can easily recall, produce and communicate in “words” and “phrases” — chunks and patterns of legal moves and board positions. But they…
Where to Get Japanese Audiobooks (Including HABU Yoshiharu’s)
by khatzumoto
This entry is part of 10 in the series What Shogi [Japanese Chess] Can Teach You About Languages, Learning and Life So, in English, I think it’s safe to say that Audible is the undisputed leader in audiobooks. And Amazon now has a Japanese version of Audible as well. But you know what? …