Zettelkasten

A Zettelkasten (German: ‘slipbox’, plural Zettelkästen) or card file consists of small items of information stored on Zettels (German: ‘slips’), paper slips or cards, that may be linked to each other through subject headings or other metadata such as numbers and tags.

Zettelkasten, for me, is a folder in my personal knowledge management system where I collect ideas, written as biased statements, link these ideas to other ideas and possibly generate new ideas from this linking process.

link: Peter’s Mind Vault Zettelkasten Notes

Zettels

• 1 Society has the right to demand ownership over their own data

• 1a maintaining and securing compute and storage is too hard for the an average non technical human being

• 1b we are already unable to distinguish authentic digital media from ai generated media

• 1b1 we will need technology to provide ways to validate authenticity of government and corporate communication

• 1b1a When AI Agents are allowed full access to our workstations, only hardware token signing can provide security

• 1b2 A new cast system is creeping into our society creating a distinction between those able to think and take decisions for themselves and those who merely get subjected by the system and its algorithms

• 1b2a Productivity gains from workers operating AI agents will inevitably become a new standard level expectation

• 1b2a1 Rapid widespread adoption of AI Agents will prove become the biggest attack vector for hackers since SQL injection

• 1b2a1a Rapid widespread adoption of agentic ai might create more secure code than in the pre-agentic era

• 1b2a2 Selfcoding AI agents work in a significantly different paradigm as their users are agents, instantly scalable and instantly knowledgeable

• 1b2b Recovering from tech-induced dopamine addiction should be a high priority health goal

• 1b3 AI generated misinformation is hardly different from humanly created disinformation

• 1b3a AI slop is bad quality, but a lot of human slop has existed long before AI

• 1c Society has the right to access a sound store of value

• 1c1 Society is forced to take investing risks to beat inflation

• 1d People should be able to communicate privately

• 1e individuals should be empowered to perform maintenance on their property

• 3 How does one Bridge the gap between knowing about a technology and applying it in a sensible manner

• 4 Music industry is pushing artists to write music for playlist playback, reducing creative expression

• 4a Listening to tactile media format makes for more concious music listening and curation

• 4b making music for niche audience such as creators and synth enthusiasts is an achievable goal in comparison to making music that is successful in general public

• 4b1 collaborating in music emphasizes the human experience connection and serendipity that make the process valuable by itself

• 4c A continuous stream of rewards provides attention, feedback and motivation for creators to create more

• 4d people are primed to prefer highly personalised ai generated music over the creative product of artists

• 5 live performance needs a healthy balance between improvisation and stressfulness

• 6 the best pitches dont have to cost a lot, good conversation can work as well

• 6a People are more likely to engage with a person than a company

• 6a1 After AI generated content hype peaks, people will crave artisinal work that they can relate to

• 6b without an employment contract money truly equals time

• 6b1 optionality is worth pursuing in many areas of life, including but not limited to finance, work and interests

• 6b1 pursuits shouldn’t make money of itself, valuable pursuits attract interest

• 6c work offers community and belonging

• 7 Open data is not necessarily free

• 8 its not about how many books you read, bit about the amount of knowledge your are able to extract, retain and process

• 9 Caring for children is a major task and highly undervalued in modern society

• 9a Being emotionally available for kids is more than just beeing physically there and performing mechanical tasks

• 10 The scientific proof of quantum entanglement opens up new avenues to explain the unexplainable

• 11 Generative AI will increase the likelihood of companies to venture into custom software development

• 11a Generative AI will increase demand for experienced engineers to maintain generated codebases

• 11b one should strive to increase the intellectual density of writing

• 11c Prompts are the new IP

• 11d content managed in plain text file format is the primed for productivity boosts with agentic llm tooling

• 12 maintaining a muscular body is one of the few accepted masculine traits

• 12a Taking care of oneself is hard and hardly selfish

references

• PKM Summit 2024 zettelkasten workshop
• Folgezettel