About these notes

Hi! I’m Andy Matuschak. You’ve stumbled upon my working notes. They’re kind of strange, so some context might help.

These notes are mostly written for myself: they’re roughly my thinking environment (Evergreen notes; My morning writing practice). But I’m sharing them publicly as an experiment (Work with the garage door up). If a note seems confusing or under-explained, it’s probably because I didn’t write it for you! Sorry—that’s sort of an essential tension of this experiment (Write notes for yourself by default, disregarding audience).

For now, there’s no index or navigational aids: you’ll need to follow a link to some starting point. You might be interested in §What’s top of mind.

👋 Andy (email, Twitter, main personal site)

PS: My work is made possible by a crowd-funded research grant from my Patreon community. You can become a member to support future work, and to read patron-only updates and previews of upcoming projects.

PS: Many people ask, so I’ll just note here: no, I haven’t made this system available for others to use. It’s still an early research environment, and Premature scaling can stunt system iteration.

§What’s top of mind

Sort of like a /now page, but with a broader time horizon and focused on what I’m thinking about.

• Expanding and understanding the Mnemonic medium via Orbit
• Evergreen note-writing as fundamental unit of knowledge work
  • The mnemonic medium can be extended to one’s personal notes
• §Enabling environments, games, and the Primer / Enacted experiences have incredible potential as a mass medium
• Programmable attention / Spaced everything
• Timeful text
• Taking knowledge work seriously
  • Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much more rigorously than knowledge workers do
  • Knowledge work rarely involves deliberate practice
  • §Taking knowledge work seriously (Stripe convergence talk, 2019-12-12)
• How might we situate tools for thought within intrinsically meaningful contexts?