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"Blogroll"

Some blogs I am mining. I'm not actively following them, it's a reading list, like a stack of textbooks.

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Beehead virtual assistant

##ADHD personal assistant, for #Emacs?

Maybe.

What does it need?

Basically people with ADHD/BIMFH (Bees In My Fucking Head), let's call them beeheads, benefit greatly from structure but do not have the ability to self-impose it. This is the crux. So a beehead assistant needs to

  1. Do "beecatching": Very quickly absorb new info on what the beehead wants or thinks - through an easy method of input
  2. Try to get info on what previous projects the beehead has lost interest in so they can be struck off the list
  3. Schedule things and bother the beehead when it's time, taking computer control as necessary
    • you could give it actual lockout powers, locking the computer with a password known only to a friend of yours

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Dialectics

A way to "find" facts by discussion.

The term "dialectics" has acquired several meanings over the ages.

  • Plato introduced it as a style of discussion distinct from the rhetorical arts because of negative associations. Through critical questions and by either synthesis or analysis, it should help the discussers get rid of unfounded impressions and approach the truth.
  • For Hermogenes of Tarsus, dialectic was the argumentation art for general questions "Should one marry?" and rhetoric was the art for specific questions "Should Anna marry?".
  • In the 19th century (like for Hegel & Marx) it was something else…

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