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A bibliography. Notes in my words; PDFs stay in ReadCube.

Now reading

  • 2016

    The Craft of Research

    Booth, Colomb, Williams

    Notes
  • 2017

    Attention Is All You Need

    Vaswani et al.

    Notes

Finished

  • 2017

    How to Take Smart Notes

    Sönke Ahrens

    Notes
  • 1945

    As We May Think

    Vannevar Bush

    Notes

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  • 2008

    Thinking in Systems

    Donella Meadows

Reading notes

  • Notes on How to Take Smart Notes

    Ahrens is not a productivity book. It is a book about when thinking happens. Highlighting, underlining, and dumping quotes into a reference

  • Rereading As We May Think

    Bush wanted the trail — the path a mind actually took through a library — to be as durable as the documents. Most “personal knowledge” softw

  • On The Craft of Research

    Still reading. Booth’s move is the one I needed before quals: a topic is not a question, a question is not a claim. I am using the book as a

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