Returning to coding after >1 year

[micseydel]

I've always had a preference for mind mapping, [...] I tend to go analogue for learning things and meeting notes.

I use RocketBook notebooks and scan my hand-drawn multicolour maps with their app which sends a PDF copies to my primary repositories (OneNote, etc).

I erroneously thought "networked thinking" and "mind mapping" were more similar than I think at this point. The biggest difference it seems is that mind mapping is centered around something, whereas "networked thinking" is more like Wikipedia - not only is there no "center" but there's also no central index. I also personally still use a whiteboard with multiple colored markers sometimes, but I take pictures as I go and always save it back to digital. I usually only bother with analog if digital has some problem.

As is common for people with CPTSD, like myself, I just accumulated more and more recent trauma because of my inability to cope or connect with people. I spent the last entire year homeless far out in the forest, as far from people as I could be, all alone. Got a home again now. Seems good, but I'm really struggling to remember what I had learned as I attempt to rebuild all the game code I'd lost.

As far as note taking regarding trauma, on paper, then throw it into my nightly fire :)

Take care of yourself, brother, and remember to let people care about you.

I'm sorry to hear you've had trouble, I'm glad to hear things have improved. I'm very privileged to have developed good savings from software engineering, but if I had to work through all this, I can definitely imagine ending up homeless. My dad was homeless for a bit when I was young, and I actually bought the car I did with the expectation that I could sleep in it if needed (which I was wrong about because I have IBS).

Part of what Tiago talks about in Building a Second Brain is how our bio brains are better at being creative when we can get distracting things out of our heads. Putting those things on paper and burning it surely has advantages! Personally I prefer having notes in my "mind graph" that I can link and interrelate. For example, I lost my three-person friend-group, so I have notes about the individuals, some notes about specific dates/hangouts, as well as multiple separate timeline notes that list different things out.

Our brains did not evolve in a post industrial media saturated society. We also didn't evolve having babies hived off from the rest of society and raised by stressed out parents who make it up as they go along. This is where CPSD comes from. In the past, emotional neglect was thought to make kids independent and tough. Ask your friends who are "hermits", they will all tell the same story.

If you don't value your thoughts and feelings, you'll never trust anyone who does.

I would take this a step further and say that just like we all know that our diets have more salt/fat/sugar than they used to, I'd say that our attention and information diets are also messed up pretty badly. Mindfulness helps, but I found that taking notes on what I was consuming and what it was/wasn't doing for me made the biggest difference.

On a related note, politics about bodily autonomy aside, the recent news in the US means that there will be more generational trauma. Forcing people to remain pregnant and then give birth to babies they don't want is surely going to start a bunch of trauma cycles. If I could get pregnant, the mere fact that a dead person would have more bodily autonomy than me would be constantly re-traumatizing.


Separately - I came here to post and ask if anyone uses Dataview with Obsidian, but given that no one piped up about it or networked thinking at all I think the answer is no 😆 That said, Dataview lets you "treat your notes like a database" and lets you use a Javascript API or a SQL-like query language to run queries. I was hoping someone fluent in Python could help me get the lay of the land, but I think I'm on my own 🙃