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I can add a use-case for that. I'm trying to read Joe Dispenza "Breaking a Habit of Being Yourself". The book starts with Joe Dispenza views on a quantum nature of our world, and I see that the author knows about quantum even less then me. Moreover he tries to make me to believe in something similar to Philip K. Dick, except everything unexplainable is explained not by references to Holy Spirit, but by slipping a word "quantum" somewhere in a sentence. He kinda believe in a magic world where you can change the world by thinking hard about the desired change, but instead of "magic" he says "quantum". Sometimes he uses word "quantum" twice in one sentence.

It was bad enough so I was fighting my desire to stop reading the book and to never try it again. I persisted because his bullshit was far outside of his supposed area of expertise and I thought he could become better when he gets to a point. But then Dispenza refers to a study showing that you can change past with a prayer: if you pray for a random sample of patients from a decade ago, then this random sample does better than a general population[1]. Then he refers to a study showing that people can unwound DNA by a force of mind[2]. Dispenza starts his book by asking a reader to keep an open mind, but there are limits of mind openness, and if you go beyond the limits then what is the point of having a mind? Am I ready to break a habit of being myself and start believing in bullshit?

After I'd found [1] and [2] with a…

What constitutes "a heated discussion"?

In what way was the discussion here "heated"? How do you measure it? It quickly becomes subjective, doesn't it? If you know what constitute heated, it's not hard to make it heated as a third party, I'd say. Or if you have access to the back end, you just make it heated and claim it is. It's all concealed after all.

Why even demote a heated discussion? What good does that do? "Ah people disagree, quick, let's remove it." Lots of room for play. Maybe you are right. Maybe I am.

>Be careful about jumping to some kind of conspiracy theory for explanations. It's not healthy.

You don't have to worry about my paranoia, I'm well aware of how it functions, why it does what it does and how to prevent it from going wrong. I'm comfortable with that. The opposite is just as true, by the way.

You on the other hand are claiming to know what is or isn't worth knowing for others, you have no problem calling the careful thoughts of others "conspiracy theories" and try to warn people about health issues, without any inquiry or verification if that applies or not. And when you're corrected or disagreed with you just decide to ignore it and go after another thing you think is wrong with someone else.

What is it you want? Growth of others? Or growth of yourself? Or both? Because from where I'm standing you're trying to give to me what I already have, but you don't take for yourself. I know what my self deception looks like. Do you in which ways you…

In 2004 I lost my job because I was a specific MBTI type usually associated with "entrepreneurial skill", "thinking outside boxes", "natural LeAderShIPP", and "causing trouble", and because there were already 2 others with that MBTI in the team it was used as the justification to not extend my contract. The test was conducted by an external HR consultancy that pictured itself as an expert in MBTI and all things psychology. (they should have just told me they don't like my personality which would have been less of an insult and more honest)

So no doubt with a bit of marketing this nonsense can be sold into HR departments. The Karen's and Kyle's of this world will no doubt think it's brilliant, buy it and feed their own biased decision making process.

MBTI's are astrology for people who think they're too smart for astrology. Both are total nonsense and dangerous in the hands of the wanna-be psychologist Karen's usually in charge of HR. [0][1][3]

It's all fun and games until people lose their jobs. Unlikely you will lose your job because you got the wrong MBTI, but when a company is downsizing and wants to pretend they're using scIeNtiFfic measures to make that decision in the name of performance it's likely they use garbage software like this to dress up their "cultural fit" bias.

I urge OP to put a big fat warning label on their product and market it as a way to educate people why MBTI's are dangerous garbage and guide those that use it onto a path that helps them…

Could it be Drift / TiddlyWiki? https://ramirosalas.com/#: (edit: note the colon in the url, then you get "a content area with multiple cards on the right, dark mode, list of tags/filters on the left")

If not, then I think TiddlyWiki [1] will be perfect for the usecase you mention. You can choose between a single-file version or a node.js version. The former will be a HTML+js file which is self-contained. The latter will save all your cards (called tiddlers) in separate files which can easily be versioned. Both supports markdown by plugin [2]. Since it uses HTML and js, it will continue working as long as web browsers don't make major changes - and if that happens, you will still have all your data available in either the source code or text files.

A tiddler has fields such as title, text and tags. But you can add other fields such as author or source or whatever. The field values can then be accessed as
{
{title!!fieldname}}. This demonstrates one of the real strengths of tiddlywiki: transclusion. Transclusion, combined with filters, opens a lot of possibilities.

As tiddlywiki is quite customizable (see https://dynalist.io/d/zUP-nIWu2FFoXH-oM7L7d9DM), you may want to have a look at some variants for inspiration, such as RR-TW (https://rr-tw5.github.io/) or Stroll (https://giffmex.org/stroll/stroll.html)

[1] https://tiddlywiki.com // https://nesslabs.com/tiddlywiki-beginner-tutorial

[2] https://tiddlywiki.com/plugins/tiddlywiki/markdown/

I use a Node-based static site generator called Hexo [1] for the blog I'm most active with. I actually wrote about my experience setting up Hexo on that blog. [2] I went with Hexo because of the availability of themes, plugins and documentation.

My workflow goes like this: 1) Write blog post in markdown, making sure to include the YAML front-matter (JSON's also an option), 2) Generate the static pages from that blog post using `hexo generate` in my CLI, 3) Use `hexo server` in my CLI to preview my changes locally in my browser, 4) Upload my files to my remote server (I haven't automated this part yet)

Alternatively, I've tried static site generation & deployment with Node, TiddlyWiki [3] and GitHub Pages. Although TiddlyWiki's not meant to be a static site by default (nor a blog), there's a lot of helpful documentation out there [4] that explains how it can be used in that way. I got a static representation of my TiddlyWiki digital garden [5] up and running in an afternoon, whereas Hexo took me a few days to figure out.

[1]: https://hexo.io/

[2]: http://practicing.design/2020/05/02/my-review-of-hexo-a-node-powered-static-site-generator/

[3]: https://tiddlywiki.com/

[4]: https://nesslabs.com/tiddlywiki-static-website-generator

[5]: http://meet-me-in.space/

The regular journalling with a notebook was really interesting, as it's a habit I've been trying to implement. I've been trying to do interstitial journaling [0] by writing down the time, noting energy levels, and listing out tasks to complete for the next 90 minutes [1].

It's far less reflective than Highsmith's notebook usage, and with a different intent, though it was inspiring to see the pages of notebooks one can fill out across their life, if one chooses to (from the article: "The 56 journals (18 diaries, 38 notebooks) add up to eight thousand pages in total.").

I wonder why she journaled less regularly later in life. Privacy looks like a reason; from the article: "[...] that would also be the last diary entry for seven years. When her lover Ellen starts sneaking peeks at the diaries, Highsmith switches only to notebook entries, which are less personal (and less interesting)." Similarly, I've censored myself a bit with handwritten entries, as it's possible that I might lose the book, or a person might find and read the journal without permission.

[0] https://nesslabs.com/interstitial-journaling

[1] Inspired by Channing Allen's 'Plan, do, learn' loops posted on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29841136