How About This - Links of Interest - June 17/22
In which our intrepid web scout reports back on their discoveries
Hello everyone, it’s been a few weeks since I’ve created a link post so let’s round out the week (it’s Friday) with some interesting things I’ve found:
Cognitive labor and its impact on women (“mental work it takes to run a home” also noting the context of those who are also pursuing post-secondary education, full time employment, etc.)
https://cognitivelabor.us/#
How can we better recognize and value the invisible work it takes to manage a home? This project is an inquiry into how to make the invisible dimensions of household work visible and tangible for people in their homes.
Found in this post from The Daminger Dispatch
From The Line, some thoughts about how diseases do (or most likely don’t) appear in science fiction.
For those of us who like paper notebooks, here’s a post from a guy who’s used all the notebooks and he talks a bit about how. He also compares different types of notebooks: my beloved Leuchtturm1917 A5 notebook fares very well indeed.
I’ve been reading a lot about how taking notes by pen and paper helps us to retain information better, even if we don’t actually read the notes again. It seems to jibe with my personal experience. A number of sources cite this 2014 research paper as a compelling case for pen and paper (link is from a copy at Vanier College; hope it’s still there!)
A counter argument that typing might well for information retention (I haven’t read this one yet but the study seems to provide different results): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797620965541
I haven’t tried some of these writing productivity methods but some of them look really interesting! 8 writing productivity methods to try out
To close things out, here are four other Substack newsletters that I’ve been finding interesting, you might also enjoy them:
The Fyve Spot - recent post is The Worst Job I’ve Ever Had… haven’t we all had at least one of those? Mark writes on a variety of topics, nice guy!
The Bluestocking - Helen Lewis is a British journalist, her most recent post is Vol 238 (watered-down marmite) - I love the variety of topics she covers and links to.
The Bus - Bryan Padrick’s newsletter is summarized as follows: “The Bus is about the journey of learning - of how we should celebrate curiosity by stopping off to discover new things along the way” - a recent issue focuses on J. B. Rhine, the “father” of modern parapsychology, just one of several items Bryan features in each edition.
Infinite Loops - each post provides two interesting quotes from a wide variety of writers and other public figures, always something inspiring here, including this example of quotes from Carol Pearson
Let me know if there’s anything interesting you’re reading that I should know about!
You've wrangled a lot of interesting sites here and it looks like some great reading. I'll be spending some time this weekend going through them. Thank you for the mention! I appreciate it :)
These all sound cool, thanks. The way we generate and recall and store our own thoughts is of interest to me as someone who keeps sketchbooks as well as notebooks (and often they are the same book). Sometimes I wonder if it’s the retention that is important so much as the ability to dig through the storage device and find what we need. We have no shortage of records and fonts but we don’t yet have the kind of intelligent search that we may need AI for.