2022-05-24
- I made some updates to my blog. Pretty excited about it. Have long wished for a way to do Anki hands-free/eye-free (e.g. on the subway, while driving). Feels like I took a step towards that today. Can now have highlights read to me from my blog using built-in text-to-speech on phone. It doesn’t work great, but it’s good enough. I love a few things about it. First, it worked right out of the box with my previous set up (all highlights on single page). I just turned on text-to-speech controls, put the highlights page in reader mode, and turned on TTS. The reading is mostly ok, but does have some rough edges in that it doesn’t really stop enough at the end of a highlight, so it seems like the highlights blur together. If you’ve read the source article recently enough, this isn’t a huge deal, but is pretty annoying. The other issue was that since highlights for all sources (articles/books/etc) were on a single page, the TTS would just immediately start reading highlights from the next
source without a break. This was a bigger issue and was enough for me to rework the structure of the page generation so that highlights from a single source now have their own page. I updated the main highlights page to mostly focus on listing sources rather than highlight content. This makes it easier to find old sources, and jump into highlights for a specific source more easily. Excited to have this be part of my morning routine, like when making coffee or eggs, just turn on the highlights from the previous day for a few mins and get reminded of what I’ve been reading that was interesting. Love that it also puts the highlights into a new medium, which helps with picking out stuff that you wouldn’t notice in text/flashcard form, and thus is good for creating a strong connection with the information. Exciting stuff!
- A décision that is wise in the context of scarcity can become unwise in the context of abundance. This is a profound idea.
- Hierarchy is downstream of scarcity. An interesting idea. Certainly there are many cases where hierarchy serves to allocate resources considered scarce, it removes the ability for certain individuals to decide what to do and how to do it, and moves that decision making ability into the hands of others, generally a smaller group.
- “College is a waste” is wrong. College is not about learning,
Date
May 24, 2022