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#+title: Professional narcissism
#+date: "2021-05-20 20:17:36 +08:00"
#+date_modified: "2022-07-08 14:35:30 +08:00"
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Per Pinker, coined from his book "The sense of style":

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The confusion of the activities of your guild, profession, or field with the subject matter designed to deal with.
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To quickly understand what this means, here's some examples:

- In film, instead of focusing what movie is about, they boast about the sales or views.
- In media, "cover the coverage", a situation where multiple sources just focuses on other sources instead of the situation itself, a problem leading to echo chambers.
- In learning, instead of focusing what and why of a note-taking method, they focus on the possible effects of your productivity as much as possible.

This could also happen on yourself already.

- In [[id:0d2264a6-e487-4761-818a-d17d2833120f][Note-taking]], you may focus on the number of notes, neglecting certain aspects such as the purpose and the quality of the notes.
- In [[id:4b33103b-7f64-4b51-8f03-cac06d4001bb][Programming]], you may boast how the program is fast that is less readable instead of making sure the program is maintainable where maintaining that program for long-term use is more important.
Create entries on potential traps on learning Ehh... Why I didn't think of those things but here we are. They are going to stay for a little while. Also, there's a slight shift in how I want use my wiki now. Instead of trying to craft every note into a set of evergreen notes. While Andy Matuschak's notes are very practical, it also focuses too much on crafting evergreen notes (a bit too much). Or maybe that was just my impression? Either way, I'll let some of my thoughts to drift if it able to link somewhere in the notes. I think I'm getting the point of Luhmann's original use of Zettelkasten as a research partner. 2021-05-20 13:58:54 +00:00			`:PROPERTIES:`
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			`#+title: Professional narcissism`
			`#+date: "2021-05-20 20:17:36 +08:00"`
Update evergreen notes as of 2022-07-28 2022-07-28 14:59:44 +00:00			`#+date_modified: "2022-07-08 14:35:30 +08:00"`
Create entries on potential traps on learning Ehh... Why I didn't think of those things but here we are. They are going to stay for a little while. Also, there's a slight shift in how I want use my wiki now. Instead of trying to craft every note into a set of evergreen notes. While Andy Matuschak's notes are very practical, it also focuses too much on crafting evergreen notes (a bit too much). Or maybe that was just my impression? Either way, I'll let some of my thoughts to drift if it able to link somewhere in the notes. I think I'm getting the point of Luhmann's original use of Zettelkasten as a research partner. 2021-05-20 13:58:54 +00:00			`#+language: en`


Update evergreen notes as of 2022-07-28 2022-07-28 14:59:44 +00:00			`Per Pinker, coined from his book "The sense of style":`
Create entries on potential traps on learning Ehh... Why I didn't think of those things but here we are. They are going to stay for a little while. Also, there's a slight shift in how I want use my wiki now. Instead of trying to craft every note into a set of evergreen notes. While Andy Matuschak's notes are very practical, it also focuses too much on crafting evergreen notes (a bit too much). Or maybe that was just my impression? Either way, I'll let some of my thoughts to drift if it able to link somewhere in the notes. I think I'm getting the point of Luhmann's original use of Zettelkasten as a research partner. 2021-05-20 13:58:54 +00:00
			`#+begin_quote`
			`The confusion of the activities of your guild, profession, or field with the subject matter designed to deal with.`
			`#+end_quote`

Update evergreen notes as of 2022-07-28 2022-07-28 14:59:44 +00:00			`To quickly understand what this means, here's some examples:`

			`- In film, instead of focusing what movie is about, they boast about the sales or views.`
			`- In media, "cover the coverage", a situation where multiple sources just focuses on other sources instead of the situation itself, a problem leading to echo chambers.`
			`- In learning, instead of focusing what and why of a note-taking method, they focus on the possible effects of your productivity as much as possible.`

			`This could also happen on yourself already.`

			`- In [[id:0d2264a6-e487-4761-818a-d17d2833120f][Note-taking]], you may focus on the number of notes, neglecting certain aspects such as the purpose and the quality of the notes.`
			`- In [[id:4b33103b-7f64-4b51-8f03-cac06d4001bb][Programming]], you may boast how the program is fast that is less readable instead of making sure the program is maintainable where maintaining that program for long-term use is more important.`