A living index of thought
Lumcog
Light of Cognition
Where thought is gathered and kept
A digital garden for ideas, books, essays, and conversations.
The chambers
Six chambers
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Seeds
A fleeting thought, worth keeping.
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Notes
Meeting books, writing echoes in the margin.
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Essays
Thinking one question a little further.
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Dialogues
Distilling real questions from dialogue.
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Found, summarized, annotated with your own footnote.
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NotesSix Kinds of Alienation, One Rule: Everything Leaves a Trace — Except YouSix kinds of alienation share one rule: everything must leave a measurable trace. And a trace is a translation — of being alive into a number someone can read off.SeedsCarrying the Red Flag Against the Red Flag: Huang Qifan's Market LogicA technocrat who runs the numbers to the decimal — and still has to borrow someone else's language to say what he means.SeedsSome Roads Leave You with Ability or Insight — Most Are Simply WalkedNo road is walked in vain sounds encouraging, but it doesn't survive scrutiny — some roads are simply walked.SeedsThink More, Move Less?Thinking a lot is not the problem. Treating it as the precondition for acting is. What you save is a few months; what you lose is the momentum to begin.EssaysThe Society of the Spectacle, ExtendedDebord said modern society descends from 'being' to 'having,' then to 'appearing.' Today it is not only the image that has been downgraded, but thinking itself.EssaysThe Craft of Weaving MeaningBefore asking why 'narrative' has gone sour, go back to a more primitive question: why can't people live without stories? Through three lines — cognitive, psychological, and social — this essay traces where it came from.