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Paweł Sysiak
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I like the idea of footnotes on footnotes. I can see an interesting exploration in this space where footnotes (and footnotes of footnotes) appear as a bottom bar/appearing over the text. Sidebars don’t work IMO as on smaller screens there is not enough horizontal space, and mobile is where a lot of text is read.
thank you for the feedback, noted
Thanks for your patience, I am back from my time off.
You listed a lot of bugs, visual problems that I want to fix. Thank you.
I agree that just text color for pluses may be a better choice here.
I agree that the best use is when digs don’t hold a small amount of text, but this is up to the writer
“Pressing Enter should move focus somewhere sensible, rather than eating the focus. Probably to the ending parenthesis for expansion, and to the original + icon for collapsion”. I think this is very interesting. I have been thinking how to approach this. I think there are tradeoffs here, mostly simplicity. There is a way, actually, to have preview text (see dig example and text in parenthesis). I will think if there is a sensible way to bake it in more universally into the dig format eg.: • {{preview text}} or similar.
I’m trying to find the best user experience for progressively expanded reading. Footnotes, for example, are only one indentation level and honestly most of them online are a pretty terrible experience to click on.
Paweł Sysiak’s Shortform
I just created Dig Text, a new writing standard, which allows you to read the shortest version first, and dig deeper only where it interests you. I thought about dig about ten years ago, lol, and now, with the help of Claude Code, I spent two weeks thinking it through and coding it. It’s still in BETA, so I’m gathering feedback, but I would love if you try it and let me know what works and what doesn’t. https://digtext.github.io
Expert Trap: why expertise breeds error—and how to course-correct
One way to go after mnestics: If you’re running a spaced-repetition system, add flashcards with the structure Title | Content for each mnestic. Then create a “master card” with the question: “What are your mnestics?” Whenever you come up with a new mnestic, update the master card and maybe reset its review interval a bit.
*I read this a while ago and the concept of mnestics stayed with me. great read!
I also gather the “Coordination and epistemic tools” resources https://www.pawel.world/Coordination-and-epistemic-tools-6508c74fbeaf4fbd8405c729993db3eb?pvs=4
What specifically does the author mean by lack of numeracy skills?
Expert trap – Ways out (Part 3 of 3)
Expert trap: Why is it happening? (Part 2 of 3) – how hindsight, hierarchy, and confirmation biases break conductivity and accuracy of knowledge
Expert trap: What is it? (Part 1 of 3) – how hindsight, hierarchy, and confirmation biases break conductivity and accuracy of knowledge
To-do waves
Elephant in the Brain influenced extensively ways I perceive social motivations. It is talking exactly about the same subject and mechanisms of why we don’t discern it in ourselves. If you didn’t read it you should check it out. It rewrote my views to the extent that I feel afraid to read “The status game” because it feels so easy to fall into confirmation bias here. This seems to me so active that I would love to read something opposite. Are there any good critiques of this view? Once I was listening to Frans de Waal’s lecture when he expressed this confusion that in primatology almost everything is explained through the hierarchy in the group. But when we listen to social scientists almost none of it is. Elephant in the brain. I think this is such an important topic.
I meant this bit on https://digtext.github.io (see image)
hover don’t work on mobile so its not a viable solution IMO
how would do u feel about the solution from the image?
I didn’t fully thought :::dig syntax through but I imagined adding a script on top of the site and inside dig tags all bulleted lists would render as dig text. Am I missing something in this solution?