Disc-bound Notebooks - Short Review
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One advantage that I didn't expand on in the main article on paper is that a notebook and pen remains a very portable solution for making notes. Digital devices that can record handwriting do exist (e.g. iPad, reMarkable 2) but they are expensive and still not as
A Paper Journey
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I count myself as fortunate because I was born into a family and a generation that gave me a great appreciation of paper as a tool for thought. On the family side, my Dad first went to a school that used chalk and slates. This meant that in later life
Edition #004 - A Book of Secrets?
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Book Review - The Six Secrets of Intelligence Sometimes you come across a book which isn't a book you would write, but says a lot about topics on your mind. This is one of those books for me. It particularly touches on a lot of issues that motivated
Artefact Cards - Tools For Thought Review
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Artefact Cards [https://artefactshop.com] are a physical tool for thought created by John Willshire [https://twitter.com/willsh] in 2012. From the website's description page [https://artefactshop.com/pages/about]: Artefact Cards help you capture, sort and play with your ideas. The process is simple; Create, Connect,
Six Secrets of Intelligence - Book Review
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The Six Secrets Of Intelligence : What Your Education Failed To Teach You by Craig Adams (2019) Sometimes you come across a book which isn't a book you would write, but says a lot about topics on your mind. This is one of those books for me. It particularly
Edition #003 - Gang Aft A-Gley
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Plans? The original plan for this edition was to feature a detailed book review that connects up to the building blocks mentioned last week. However, as those who recognise the title as being from the poetry of Robert Burns [https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-best-laid-schemes-of-mice-and-men.html] , things did not
Edition #002 - First Steps
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Building Blocks This Edition is going to introduce a couple of the building blocks of thinking that I think are important. It's worth saying that unlike some other writers I don't think that any of these (or ones I will describe in future) stand alone. Thinking
Analogy
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(The previous post on induction [https://www.mindatelier.co.uk/articles/induction/] can be useful to read first.) Analogy is powerful because it suggests that knowing something about one thing can help us understand something else. While Kant focussed on pairs of relationships (hand - glove; foot - shoe) Aristotle
