Hi, this will be the main dump for notes regarding my various sources. As I finish them and finalize them, I will upload them here.
Business principles:
The rudiments to good business practices.
Consultancy business notes:
Basics for consultancy start ups.
Writing notes:
On the notion of group-writing. Every writing is a different literacy, preferred by a group of people in an institution. Here, is a good guide on how to navigate the writing process for better communication with that internal group.
Time Management notes:
A good, but lengthy, video on the “Psychology of Time Management”. A lot of hidden gems in this one, so do refer to the pdf as you watch along, if you want to see how I organized it as I was writing it.
Notation tools:
I previously had used Roam many years ago; back (before they paywalled it) in its beta. Obsidian recently updated its UI, but I switched over once I began to “break” Roam’s UI. If you want a “database without needing an actual database”, so a serious independent researcher, I recommend learning how to notate in markdown. Markdown is the language of Obsidian, as all its files are written in that format. Very useful, and I can confirm it doesn’t break easily. (Take it from a guy that has broken (through sheer quantity) Substack’s writing portal, Google Document’s, Roam’s UI, and many others.) Google drive stores in a cloud, so you can reasonably get around its deficiencies, but transferring between files and documents is rough (if you’re indeed doing a legitimate endeavor). I’ve yet to be disappointed in Obsidian's mapping utility and “leap” ability from document to document; whether this is associatively through what i’ll call internal-hyperlinks, or through an intermediary tag (or you can say, metadata) system; recently I did confirm it can hold up to 100s of pages in a single file, with fast export as well. Overall, if you use any of the others above, Obsidian is better in one way or another so consider making the switch.
Most of my usage of Obsidian was when it had a more laid back UI; they recently added some buttons and the layout resembles a browser in some ways, with the introduction of “tabs”. Usually i’m not a fan of this stuff, but they really outdid themselves, there. Highly recommend the sleek mobile app as your primary note-taking on-the-go driver.
Obsidian download, link. Hint: it’s free.
Think tanks:
My article on the theory, here.
American Think Tank notes:
On Medvetz’ book, a strong academic analysis.
No Mercy notes:
An outsider-looking-in view on conservative think tanks. Undercurrents of Marxism, however, a fair book nonetheless.
Supplementary Data:
Repository of wiki articles of conservative thinktanks I made, years ago, now:
An old diagram I made, although now I see things a little differently, this is a good delineation on corporate versus grass-roots. There is much I wish to talk about more indepth on this one:
I may begin to build out—much like a stained-glass artwork-and-window in a Catholic Cathedral—a repository of various think tank resources. I will likely paywall some of that, but am unsure, as of yet.