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“Jagten på det produktive liv” er en slags statusrapport fra übernørden Stephen Wolfram - kendt fra “A New Kind of Science” og søgemaskinen Wolfram Alpha.
Efter at have læst rapporten i sin fulde længde (det tog en god halv times tid) har jeg erkendt to ting om @stephen_wolfram
Stephen ham selv
Anyway, her er bare et lille udvalg af citater fra artiklen Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure—Stephen Wolfram Blog, som man dog afgjort bør læse i sin fulde længde - om ikke andet så for at grine med ham, når han fortæller om sit vandreturs-setup eller sit fejlslagne eksperiment med bogreol-organisering,
Om firmaet som en stor maskine:
“For me personally, another huge “productivity hack” is my company, which I started more than 32 years ago. Yes, it could (and should) be larger, and have more commercial reach. But as a nicely organized private company with about 800 people it’s an awfully efficient machine for turning ideas into real things, and for leveraging what skills I have to greatly amplify my personal productivity.”
Om at organisere alle filer og dokumenter i mapper efter faste principper:
“Instead of insisting on narrow categories, I allowed broad, general categories—with the result that I could easily have 50 or more papers filed in a single category.” “I have pretty much the same principle about some parts of my computer filesystem today. For example, when I’m collecting research about some topic, I’ll just toss all of it into a folder named for that topic. Sometimes I’ll even do this for years. Then when I’m ready to work on that topic, I’ll go through the folder and pick out what I want.”
Om ikke bare at samle al sin information, men også at kunne søge i den:
“A critical part of my personal infrastructure is something that in effect dramatically extends my personal memory: my “metasearcher”. At the top of my personal homepage is a search box. Type in something like “rhinoceros elephant” and I’ll immediately find every email I’ve sent or received in the past 30 years in which that’s appeared, as well as every file on my machine, and every paper document in my archives:”
Om fremtidige værktøjer:
“Before too long maybe I’ll be using AR to annotate my environment in real time. Maybe eventually I’ll have some way to do XR-based as-if-in-person videoconferencing. Maybe—as I’ve been assuming will be possible for 40+ years—I’ll finally be able to type faster using something like EEG. And so on. But the more important changes will be in having better-developed, and more automated, workflows. In time I expect it’ll be possible to use our machine learning tools to do automatic “computational history”, for example assembling a useful and appropriately clustered timeline of things I’ve done, say in a particular area.”
Wolfram, du er min helt!
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