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​​👋​ Intro

​​Hello! I’m ​+Buster Benson​. Welcome to my super rough notes. My personal website with ever-so-slightly more organized thoughts is over at notes.busterbenson.com but I wanted to try something a bit more chaotic and unpolished for a bit. Fair warning: it’s not going to make sense. Hefty skepticism is fully warranted. Inline comments are welcome.  
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​​I’m looking for a new, untethered way to organize thoughts in some spatial dimensions that aren’t by chronology or topic, but more around how function in terms of connecting me to my own intuitions, the world, and to communities. It’s a work-in-progress, so for now you get this random pile of rough notes loosely organized. 
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​Loosely organized

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​​INDEX OF ROUGH NOTES
​​ELSEWHERE
​​Living well
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​​Projects
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​​Notes
  • ​​On productive disagreement
  • ​​On sensemaking, the meaning crisis, mythic realm, etc
  • ​​On reading tarot, the book of changes, etc
  • ​​On things I’m reading/studying
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  • ​​Writings from various places
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​​Social platforms
  • ​​Reliably inconsistent participant
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​​My book
  • ​​On the art of productive disagreement
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  • ​​Previously at busterbenson.com
  • ​​Blog (2003-2020), some highlights:
  • ​​Piles (Based on interests)
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​​Past and present projects
  • ​​A few that come to mind

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​Changelog

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​May 2021
  • ​​28th: 
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​March 2021
  • ​​25th: 
  • ​​Learned that adults in California will all be eligible for vaccinations on 4/15! 
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​January 2021
  • ​​26th: I found an old blog and added some entries that I think were formative for my early career and way of thinking to the notes site. Scroll down to the bottom. This is the post (Build reputation, avoid credit) that I was looking for that eventually let to me finding the blog.
  • ​​25th: I found the full text of my 2003 NaNoWriMo novel that I thought was forever lost on an old dead laptop. It starts here. 
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​September 2020
  • ​​1st: Launched the monthly challenge on the new ​+750 Words V2​ site, which about 20 people are now using regularly. 
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​July 2020
  • ​​4th: Full buck moon, lunar eclipse, aphelion
  • ​​Realized my update to 750 didn’t quite fix the Very Annoying Bug as well as I had hoped. Back into the trenches of trying to understand memory leaks and race conditions I go.
  • ​​3rd: Updated test.750words.com (private alpha currently, ping me if you want to help test it out) with a fix to a very annoying memory leak issue that had me stuck for over a month. Daily active writers is around 8-10, so still a super small group.
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​June 2020
  • ​​20th: Summer solstice new moon
  • ​​13th: Shared notes on ​+White Fragility​ in a Facebook post as Black Lives Matter continues to rise in our cultural narrative. Also started a bound-to-be-difficult but hope-to-be-insightful conversation with Jonathan Church on white fragility. 
  • ​​5th: Started a ​+Tarot​ page and a Tarot Journal to explore the weird mythical lands where shared stories are discovered, mostly for personal use but public because why not?
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​May 2020 
  • ​​29th: 
  • ​​Imported and updated my ​+Codex Vitae​ along with the 9-year changelog. This is the first time I’ve posted my beliefs somewhere that allowed comments… I’m curious if this will lead to better feedback and accountability.
  • ​​I need to explain the 8 locations on the map. First I’ll create notebooks for each one, starting with ​+The Dark Forest​. 
  • ​​I moved stuff from this homepage to ​+44 - Year of the Amateur​ because I realized that things were going to get really messy really quick. I also added the weird table above in an attempt to approximate a 2-dimensional map-like thing that is organized by an obscure system that may or may not work. Luckily, being an amateur allows such risks to be taken.
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