In our last post, we covered the big-picture view of “why learn how to learn?” and a bit on principles you can follow to do so. We also introduced a basic note-taking system, making use of “Bib Cards. I had originally intended to give a quick-start guide to the full analog Zettelkasten approach in that post, but it was a tale that grew in the telling, and for reasons of space, I’ve pulled it out and reworked it a bit into this post. As mentioned in that post, if you want to go all the way with the Zettelkasten approach, I recommend Scott Scheper’s Antinet Zettelkasten. Basic Starter Guide to…
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It may seem a bit odd to take a detour into learning as a subject on a site dedicated to rhetoric, but I believe I can justify it to you in two ways. First, more obviously, while I’m sharing what I can on our subject matter here, the very nature of the medium is that if you want to get the most of it, you’re going to have to and put in some work on your own. I won’t be standing there to answer questions, point out errors, or direct you to the next stepping stone (though, by all means, if I can help with any of that less directly,…