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A peu près tout le monde fait la grimace à l’idée de faire (ou d’accorder du temps de travail pour faire une) sieste —genre “la sieste, c’est pour les bébés” — alors que faire une sieste est une des meilleures façons (que je connaissance) de rester efficace longtemps.

Wow, tu vas très loin et très vite !

Vraiment? Je partage juste mon étonnement et un certain… malaise, tout en précisant que j’approuve le fait d’aider ceux qui en ont besoin. J’aurais du écrire quoi pour ne pas aller ‘très loin et très vite !’?

J’imagine sans mal que ce soit mal vu de ne pas être enthousiaste par défaut mais je reste sur mon questionnement: c’est quoi le but (on veut/va faire quoi?) et, si on se débarrasse de ce genre de jargon marketing qui ne veut pas dire grand-chose de concret — “mieux accompagner les étudiant·es de 1ᵉʳ cycle dans leurs parcours, faciliter leur intégration, encourager leurs initiatives et les former aux défis des territoires.” (source) — est-ce que ça ne ressemble pas à une tentative de traiter un symptôme plutôt que sa cause… si souci il y a?

Je suis le seul à trouver ça (la sieste, mais aussi tout l’article/projet de l’université) un peu… infantilisant, pour ne pas dire… très beaucoup? Ils sont censés entrer à la fac, pas en maternelle…

OK, il semble très probable que je sois un horrible vieux con (j’assume être le premier, et je suis très probablement l’autre également) et il semblerait aussi que je ne comprenne rien aux difficultés des jeunes d’aujourd’hui (je veux bien le croire) mais je me demande vraiment qu’elle est la finalité d’une telle démarche et ce qu’elle dit de l’efficacité de l’éducation des enfant/ados (ce que ces jeunes étaient il y a peu encore)?

Je veux dire, entrant à la fac ils sont censés avoir le droit de vote, le droit de conduire, de picoler et aussi de jouer au docteur, et on en est à leur expliquer comment faire dodo (et pourquoi c’est important) et comment dire bonjour aux autres étudiants de leur âge, comment remplir un formulaire ou comment faire une démarche administrative?

C’est quoi la suite? Le jour de la rentrée ces jeunes adultes recevront une formation accélérée sur l’art de nouer leur lacets correctement pour ne pas risquer de se casser la figure en marchant dessus en se rendant d’un auditorium à un autre, ainsi qu’un bavoir et un biberon avec un mode d’emploi illustré (pour éviter qu’ils se blessent en essayant de les utiliser seuls)?

OK, je trolle mais ça me laisse sincèrement très perplexe.

Donc, plus sérieusement: si les jeunes ont besoin de ça, c’est très bien de le leur donner, évidemment, mais je doute que 12 millions et deux petits lits fassent une réelle différence. Parce le souci c’est qu’ils ne devraient pas en avoir besoin parce que ce que ça semble vouloir compenser sont deux des choses qu’ils sont censés avoir apprises en grandissant, aussi bien auprès de leur famille qu’à l’école: se débrouiller et se gérer. Si on réalise (un peu tard) que ce n’est pas le cas et qu’ils ont besoin d’aide, c’est pas à la fac qu’il faut intervenir, c’est en amont. Loin en amont.

The same reason I care about a working democracy. You can’t have one without the other.

Thx a lot, much appreciated :)

I am going to quote myself here:

Allow me to quote myself too, then:

That’s not the point.

I do not disagree with your remarks (I do not use Telegram), I simply consider it’s not the point or that it should not be.

Obviously, laws should be enforced. What those laws are and how they are used to erode some stuff that were considered fundamental rights not so long ago is the sole issue, once again, im(v)ho ;)

Well, except Telegram isn’t a good tool for privacy.

That’s not the point. The hunting down on tools and their creators (and on our right to privacy) is the issue here. At least, imho.

Une question de vocabulaire, pour le coup: pourquoi “vacances apprenantes” au lieu de “vacances studieuses”? Je veux dire, apprendre (être un/une apprenant/apprenante), donc) n’est-ce pas étudier (être studieux)?

Cette question (bête?) mise à part, l’idée me semble bien sympathique :)

Cardiologist this Saturday, Dentist on Sunday because my dentist likes to work on Sundays while, oddly enough, I have no favorite day to go visit her :p — more seriously, she is real good I’m lucky to be one of her patients.

Beside that, reading, writing, spend time with my spouse. Maybe watch a DVD and, hopefully, keep on watching an online course at the Collège de France.

Edit: not much going out and no walking either this WE, like the previous days, since I’ve broken my foot — and I can tell you that not walking is really starting to become frustrating.

Sketching, reading, writing, listening to music… not going out for a walk (because of a broken foot) and the, oh so incredibly exciting reinstallation of my Mac on a new and larger thunderbolt SSD.

Reinstalling macOS has become so slow and such a pain (even more so on an external disc), in comparison with older Mac and compared to reinstalling a Linux system. Luckily, I had a good book to read while I waited for macOS to reinstall itself :p

I would constantly log them out of all their social and turn off their phone — what a naughty ghost would I be :p

when you put them back in the boxes, how do you do it? Do you put them in chronological or alphabetical order?

Each card as a unique ID (it can take any form you fancy but it has to be unique) and I simply put each card back at its place following that ID, no matter the content of the card. What matters is the info you associate to each card, using its ID as a reference, in your index.

The index is a pile of cards alphabetically ordered that contain a list of keywords. Each keyword will then a have list of pointers to cards IDs and to other index entries to find any related content.

(For example in the D section of my index I will have a ‘Dinosaur’ entry and in my T section I will have a ‘T-rex’ entry. The Dinosaur index may points me to, say, the 222.1.1.10B card (in which I’ve written stuff about the latest attempts in recreating living dinosaurs) and to the 421.1 card (in which I have a few notes on my last visit at the natural history museum, where there are those great dinosaur fossils). It will also have refs telling me to go check the ‘T-rex’ and the ‘Diplodocus’ and so on index entries for more related cards, as well as say the ‘Meteor’ and ‘Species (extinction)’ entries.)

Using the index is akin to using Cmd/Ctrl+F to do a search on text: fast and almost instantaneous. This index is really the key to my Zettel.

Each of the card the index would have suggested I read may itself contain refs to other cards. Like you would have internal links between cards, using Obsidian.

Finally, I have my bibliographical references, an alphabetically-ordered series of cards. Those allow me to quickly find notes from any book and author I’ve read and to reference back to it, using its own unique ID. This also helps a lot when I’m reading to quickly take notes (on blank index cards, with that unique book ID written in one corner). So, while I’m reading it barely takes seconds to write down whatever idea or keyword I want to be able to find later on, plus the corresponding page number in the book. No need to reference the book itself, no need to write long comments or explanations (those will, or will not go later on in my main Zettelkasten cards, when I’m reviewing my reading notes) it’s really all about quickly jotting down a word or two + a page number, which saves a lot of time.

And when you want to find one again, do you have to search through hundreds of cards just to find the right one?

I use the index or the bibliographical refs, depending if I’m searching for an idea or a keyword in general or for some specific book annotations or author. Those point me to all relevant cards in my Zettelkasten. And like I told you each card can then also point me to other relevant/interesting cards on its own.

That said, at times I’ll randomly pick some cards and browse through them (just as a way to ’thought-provoke’ my own brain with random ideas and notions).

Regarding your first comment:

1. Easy backups

I take pictures with my iPhone of all new cards from that day, those photos are then automatically converted by the scanning app into a PDF and saved to my iCloud storage, it’s real quick. All my iCloud being regularly and automatically backed-up on external drives.

The app I use is ‘Scanner Pro’ by Readdle (I purchased the license many years ago and the scanner still works perfectly with the latest iOS). It’s very simple aka quick to use, it does an impressive job at auto straighten the card no matter how poorly I present it to the camera, then it creates a PDF with all the day worth of images and then save it to iCloud, all by itself.

2. No physical storage space required.

It’s not really an issue for me as my Zettel is not that large. That said, it does take space but I can use it without a computer/screen (which also takes space)… and for storage, old shoe boxes don’t cost much ;)

I might look up some tutorials next, but I don’t want to overcomplicate things. With any system there’s a point where you end up spending more time fussing with the scaffolding rather than just building the building, if you know what I mean.

100% agreed. If it works well enough, then it’s all one needs.

Watching a few videos to better understand the appeal of a digital Zettel myself, I realized it was something many ‘new’ users were not aware of and also something way too many video creators were not worrying enough about.

I mean, some of those videos are very well made but they’re also mostly empty chatting and/or trying to chase a unicorn by focusing on what to me seemed like insignificant details or an unrealistic desire for perfection. Doing so, they spend a lot of their time and energy, and a lot of their viewer’s time and energy too.

I do understand keeping the user watching as many videos as possible, for as long as possible, is the entire business model of making video on YouTube (more talking + more videos = more watching time = more ads viewed = more money) but as a user I don’t think it’s worth my time and efforts so I don’t watch them ;)

Is that normal in your opinion?

Imho, a better question to ask yourself would be to consider why you’re giving up quickly?

If you give up because you realize you can’t be bothered with whatever that activity is, fine. I tried a few things I realized had little value to me. No big deal.

If it’s because you don’t want to make the effort of learning to do it properly and/or because you can’t accept that, as beginner at it, your not already good and get not success. Then, it’s probably not a great decision.

I see two things our society as a whole (even more so when it is lived through social media lenses) tend to discourage younger people to reflect upon:

1. Not being good at something new is normal.
   It is to be expected from most beginners. That’s why as adults we’re supposed to teach ourselves (so we learn and get better at that thing), and that’s why, as little kids, we are being taught by adults. And that learning takes time and practice. A lot of both.
2. Failing at something new is to expected too.
   Failing is how we learn. Remember how you learned to walk as a toddler? Was it by being good at walking? Or was it by falling on your diapered bum many, many times over and over again like a clumsy toddler? At least, that’s how I learned ;)

That’s also how we learn to read and to write. By doing mistakes. Not by picking up our first pen and writing the next best-seller.

So, to get back to your question, if you give up on something because you would want to be good at it instantly, you’re probably missing out on something.

You mean, something like this? https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

Yep, it would have helped a lot. Back when I was in university, we did not even had a single note-taking/research course. We had to figure it out by ourselves, which i know a lot of my fellow students did not bother doing.

As for Obsidian, do not hesitate to share a few insights as I have yet to see how it can help me better than paper does. I mean, beside a faster search inside my notes (which is not what matters the most to me). For example, the fact I cannot manually/freely reorder my notes, in a note-taking app, is beyond me and it’s something I do all the time with my slip of papers. But I’m also willing to admit I’m missing out on something important.

Clever 8^)

But I still have to install FF from time to time, like I did today — best way to spend one’s Sunday, reinstalling the Mac :/

Speaking installation, whenever I do an installation Firefox is always the second app I install on fresh machine. The first one being my password manager.

None.

Countries don’t have a unique identity I could like or dislike as a whole.

They can vary widely from region to region, city to city, block to block, street to street… heck even person to person. I may not like some people, or at worst some region because of this or that reason but that is all.

I don’t really understand all these articles explaining how to switch to Firefox. You install firefox and use it, that’s all.

They don’t give a crap about the article usefulness, that’s just more ads to sell.

Why do you think the web is so much riddled with crap content? More and more of it generated by clueless AI? It’s not to be helpful to their readers, that I can tell you ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser ;)

Sorry, I can’t switch to Firefox, as I’ve never not used Firefox.
I used it already when it was called Netscape. Before that I used Mosaic, which itself is not entirely stranger to Netscape creation.

Also, FF is not “a great alternative to Google Chrome”. FF is a great browser in its own right. (Almost) always has been. And how could it be considered an alternative to anything when it was there first (or second, right after Mosaic)?