The concept was by and large inspired by starting (but not checking) Against The Grain in 2019, and I wrote it up when I realized I wanted to be able to point it when criticizing articles. There’s an unaired podcast recording of me going “this was so great, I sure hope it checks out”, and I’m so grateful I hedged now.
I did read ATG within the first few months after discovering Roam. You might be interested in this post I did doing an epistemic spot check on the same book with and without Roam, which was only slightly before I read Against the Grain the first time.
I had the concept of epistemic spot check before I used Roam, and don’t use nearly as formal a system now as I describe in the linked blog post or contemporaneous ones, but the intermediate period where I was using Roam very formally probably was quite helpful.
The concept was by and large inspired by starting (but not checking) Against The Grain in 2019, and I wrote it up when I realized I wanted to be able to point it when criticizing articles. There’s an unaired podcast recording of me going “this was so great, I sure hope it checks out”, and I’m so grateful I hedged now.
I did read ATG within the first few months after discovering Roam. You might be interested in this post I did doing an epistemic spot check on the same book with and without Roam, which was only slightly before I read Against the Grain the first time.
I had the concept of epistemic spot check before I used Roam, and don’t use nearly as formal a system now as I describe in the linked blog post or contemporaneous ones, but the intermediate period where I was using Roam very formally probably was quite helpful.