* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19013043
* https://philosopher.life/#2019.01.27%20-%20drdeadringer%3A%20First%20Contact

Hello [[drdeadringer]],

It's a pleasure to meet you.<<ref "hi">>

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> my wiki

This is an interesting idea.
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Thank you. You might check out [[Tiddlywiki|https://tiddlywiki.com/]]. I'm glad I did.

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How is this more involved than a personal blog?
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Perhaps the best TLDR answer to your question I can give is simply: it's as personal and involved as you want it to be.

Imho, the value of your effort scales quite well with this tool (into obsession). In whatever best form and function fits your context, be as [[concise or precise|Ithkuil]] as you can about what matters most to you.

I know it might sound obvious to you, as though it doesn't need to be defined or I'm being too pedantic, but I'm going to ask you to define "personal blog."<<ref "i">> Tell me what you think is failing, incomplete, or lacking in the essential practice? What should it be instead? What do you think counts as the fitting [[Tit For Two Tats]] method of [[Golden Rule]] cooperating with ourselves and each other in social media?

I can tell you that telling ourselves the stories of ourselves is mind-bendingly difficult and non-linear. What is the [[good]] for the sake of which one thinks about their life, and what are the most effective means to those end(s)? I suggest to you the wiki is an astoundingly flexible teleological tool for exploring, methodologizing, coherentifying, and evolving all kinds of answers to those questions. I've yet to find any other such low-friction tool which enables me to connect the dots and fill in the holes in my life to this [[dok]]. It's a place to be autonomous and define myself with [[others]].<<ref jyu">> It's the best [[self-modeling]] development environment I've ever had.<<ref "sm">>

If you are asking how much more involved my wiki is to me than a standard personal blog (or even a book), I can say my wiki is ~25MB of highly-dimensional (for me at least) plaintext in a single html file. I work everyday in it. What I spend my time doing in my wiki varies with my daily context, and it's clear my {[[Focus]]} continues to change year after year.<<ref "sl">> Even though I plan, I cannot say what kind of object this wiki will become in the next year; it's exciting.

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Do you literally auto-bio your entire self into a wiki?
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It is like having a second brain.<<ref "sb">> I am attempting to upload what I currently think matters most about my mind into this wiki. I appreciate having the chance to read and think about what I've written.

For both conceptual and practical reasons, I can't auto-bio everything about my life. I do my best with what I've got; it's all I can do. I have to be reductive, empirical, put my tentpegs down in the desert, fix my goggles, and pick out what is salient. If I knew how to be a better philosopher, I would (or so I [[hope]]). Without even remotely espousing a form of relativism here: I can't sufficiently tell you what you need to put in your ~~beetlebox~~ wiki (I probably can't even do it for myself). I'm simply not [[virtous|Virtue is Knowledge]] enough to know the answers to the many questions your question is asking.

Without reading the entire wiki itself for my current best answer, I believe {[[About]]} and {[[Principles]]} are the best [[antipleonasmic]] answers I have regarding what I'm doing in the wiki and why.

Sincerely,

[[h0p3]]

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<<footnotes "hi" "Thank you for {[[contact]]}ing me, please make yourself at home, and let me know if or how I can {[[help]]} [[you|drdeadringer]].">>

<<footnotes "i" "I'm afraid I'm not so skilled at defining it. I think we're having a [[hyperconversation]] of some sort though.">>

<<footnotes "jyu" "I am reminded of this letter: [[2018.12.05 - JYU: Thank You For The Gift]]">>

<<footnotes "sm" "I'm being sincere even though I appreciate the irony in: [[Poem: I am the very model of a self-recursive modeler]] and [[Why You Might Hate Me]].">>

<<footnotes "sl" "My daily snapshots show and [[audit]]s of my wiki show me a persistent identity in a way that no standard blog or journal ever would.">>

<<footnotes "sb" "This isn't a new idea, but I think this is best version of the idea I can implement.">>