Pluralism is generally acknowledged to be a desirable condition for contemporary societies. Yet pluralism’s strongest advocates tend to be the oppressed, those who recognize it as an ideal not yet achieved. For them, advocating pluralism is a sort of survival tactic. The unoppressed, on the other hand, tend to advocate it (to a limited extent [...]
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Notes on Note-taking
By Robert Minto in Organization, Scholarship, StrategyAnn Blair’s article “Note-taking As an Art of Transmission”, has finally kicked me in the direction of explicitly formulating my own method. My method has been developing over the past two years; now, I have finally achieved a level of technical proficiency such that I no longer look back on books and lectures with regret [...]
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