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ETL to QE, Update 53, Reading Effectively

Date: 2024-12-21

I have aspired to read an article a day and annotate it using Hypothes.is. The goal is to integrate more and more knowledge into my life. I am having a hard time integrating what I read.

When I look at my hypothes.is feed I get a bunch of decontextualized slop just like browsing a infotainment feed in Instagram, Nostr, or Twitter.

What I read should have direct influence over the actions and decisions I make. If I read something and it doesn't integrate into my life what so ever, it is the same as masturbating.

I want to attach all media I consume to a Question, Quest, Goal or Purpose. That's the implicit goal of Question Engine.

Reviewing my own Infotainment Feed

When I look at the most recent articles on my Hypothes.is account I see,

Well why did you read each of these articles?

We got an explanation and some context for why I read each of those articles. But they are not integrated into some grand narative.

My Grift - Organizing Principal - Personal Legend needs to be broken down into component pieces or Vectors that align with each of those Articles. I want something from each article. That want needs to resonate with my personal narrative.

It's interesting to try and explicitly break down what I want from what I read. It makes me feel Self Conscious or event Cringe which in this case is a good thing.

These articulated Wants are not the true axiomatic wants either, they each need to be broken down and integrated.

This process of Interrogation seems valuable. In fact if this was turned into a multiplayer game I think I would have some sort of product.

But this process of Interrogation is not an end in and of itself, it is supposed to produce Strong Decisions.

Wants by themselves don't produce decisions.

We got an explanation and some context for why I read each of those articles. But they are not attached to any  grand purpose or narrative that would make it easy to remember why I ingested this media.

I need a playbooks for finding the most important media for myself to consume. If I was to build an AI agent to pre digest all my media what would it even do?

The media I consume needs to be digested using a set of premises, these premisses being the grand narratives, interests, passions, desires, wants, grift, purpose, projects, or organizing principal.