Re: the Russia story if you have a mechanism where might always wins you end up in a pretty horrible place, but that isn't to say a complicated rule of law requiring extensive use of attorneys is perfect, as those with more resources have and advantage and there is a tremendous productivity drag. Better arbitration and more trust seem to work best.
US system is far from perfect! But if I had to choose between the two and had a veil of ignorance and could end up as any member of either society, I know which system I'd rather have.
Totally agreed. And that is what makes the point the author was trying to make a bit deceitful. The US system could and should be improved but guns and bigger sticks are not the way.
Yeah. The argument of "well, your thing isn't perfect so you can't say anything negative about my thing" is just a rhetorical trick, not an actual way to achieve anything.
Yeah. I zoomed in and took a look, but thanks for the update! Thought they might be bicycle which are pretty standard, but I’ll def take a look at Theory11. Have a great weekend
A big user and fan of Obsidian myself. Listening to that podcast right now... Good stuff!
I was a heavy user of Notion and I switched to Obsidian for two main reasons: Speed and Portability. After Notion crashed a few times, I was worried about its reliability and as my data expanded, it started getting laggy as well. I couldn't expand it either. Backlinks work in Notion as well, but they get really slow as the total data grows.
Obsidian is way smoother and I back it up by compressing the folder and mailing it to myself. Backlinks work like a charm! They've changed the way I organize and traverse through data. I'm still discovering new features of Obsidian every day. Haven't made use of the graph functionalities even 1%.
Yeah, I use Notion too for newsletter stuff (less permanent notes, just a series of bookmarks and ideas that I delete after I'm done with them, so that file constantly churns), but it's super-slow vs Obsidian, and it gets slower as you add to a file..
And I wouldn't want to be adding stuff to Notion for years and years and then find out 5-10 years later that the company has changed and I don't like them anymore (the Dropbox effect... I used to love Dropbox, but they stopped focusing on what they did well and bloated the software with 15 things I had no use for). It would be a huge pain to migrate elsewhere. A local directory of plaintext files feels a lot more future proof.
Exactly. I never considered it when I was starting out with Notion, but then I came across this article by Derek Sivers - https://sive.rs/dj. He writes:
"If digital, use only plain text. It’s a standard format not owned by any company. It will be readable in 50 years on devices we haven’t even imagined yet. Don’t use formats that can only be read by one program, because that program won’t be around in 50 years. Don’t use the cloud, unless you’re also going to download it weekly and back it up in plain text outside that cloud. (Companies shut down. Clouds disappear. Think long-term.)"
I thought it was a little paranoid, but then the Notion outages happened. And then I stumbled across Obsidian - Markdown meets great UI, offline, future-proof! Seemed like a no-brainer.
hardcore obsidian user here - I guess where Notion shines most is when you have a team, as it can be very versatile and the building blocks can make a micro-CRM to manage a team of 2-3 people. For PKM (personal knowledge management), Obsidian all the way.
Exactly. One isn't superior to the other *for everything*, it depends on your use-case. Roam or Logseq can also be great if you need more of an outliner, for example.
Craft may be more competitive with Notion, but I haven't played with that one as much...
First time I'm hearing about Logseq and Craft... I'll check them out.
Or maybe I shouldn't, considering how much time I spend on PKM when I could just be sticking with one of them and working on the actual "knowledge" part. 😅
Ha! Well, upfront time investment in tools can pay off big over many many years, as long as at some point you start looking for tools and actually use them!
"The Beatles one is a gift for my parents. Please don’t tell them". Your parents don't read the NL?? You gotta recruit them as paying subs:)
They don't really speak English ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Did we find a way to increase your TAM? Offer the NL in multiple languages:)
Ha! I'll just do Esperanto and Klingon and be done with it..
Re: the Russia story if you have a mechanism where might always wins you end up in a pretty horrible place, but that isn't to say a complicated rule of law requiring extensive use of attorneys is perfect, as those with more resources have and advantage and there is a tremendous productivity drag. Better arbitration and more trust seem to work best.
US system is far from perfect! But if I had to choose between the two and had a veil of ignorance and could end up as any member of either society, I know which system I'd rather have.
Totally agreed. And that is what makes the point the author was trying to make a bit deceitful. The US system could and should be improved but guns and bigger sticks are not the way.
Yeah. The argument of "well, your thing isn't perfect so you can't say anything negative about my thing" is just a rhetorical trick, not an actual way to achieve anything.
As a group, Russians love making that argument, too
Fantastic playing cards! Delicious picks. Thanks for sharing
Thanks! I think I forgot to mention, but they're from Theory11. They have a lot of nice ones.
Yeah. I zoomed in and took a look, but thanks for the update! Thought they might be bicycle which are pretty standard, but I’ll def take a look at Theory11. Have a great weekend
Have a great weekend too! 💚 🥃
A big user and fan of Obsidian myself. Listening to that podcast right now... Good stuff!
I was a heavy user of Notion and I switched to Obsidian for two main reasons: Speed and Portability. After Notion crashed a few times, I was worried about its reliability and as my data expanded, it started getting laggy as well. I couldn't expand it either. Backlinks work in Notion as well, but they get really slow as the total data grows.
Obsidian is way smoother and I back it up by compressing the folder and mailing it to myself. Backlinks work like a charm! They've changed the way I organize and traverse through data. I'm still discovering new features of Obsidian every day. Haven't made use of the graph functionalities even 1%.
Yeah, I use Notion too for newsletter stuff (less permanent notes, just a series of bookmarks and ideas that I delete after I'm done with them, so that file constantly churns), but it's super-slow vs Obsidian, and it gets slower as you add to a file..
And I wouldn't want to be adding stuff to Notion for years and years and then find out 5-10 years later that the company has changed and I don't like them anymore (the Dropbox effect... I used to love Dropbox, but they stopped focusing on what they did well and bloated the software with 15 things I had no use for). It would be a huge pain to migrate elsewhere. A local directory of plaintext files feels a lot more future proof.
Exactly. I never considered it when I was starting out with Notion, but then I came across this article by Derek Sivers - https://sive.rs/dj. He writes:
"If digital, use only plain text. It’s a standard format not owned by any company. It will be readable in 50 years on devices we haven’t even imagined yet. Don’t use formats that can only be read by one program, because that program won’t be around in 50 years. Don’t use the cloud, unless you’re also going to download it weekly and back it up in plain text outside that cloud. (Companies shut down. Clouds disappear. Think long-term.)"
I thought it was a little paranoid, but then the Notion outages happened. And then I stumbled across Obsidian - Markdown meets great UI, offline, future-proof! Seemed like a no-brainer.
hardcore obsidian user here - I guess where Notion shines most is when you have a team, as it can be very versatile and the building blocks can make a micro-CRM to manage a team of 2-3 people. For PKM (personal knowledge management), Obsidian all the way.
Exactly. One isn't superior to the other *for everything*, it depends on your use-case. Roam or Logseq can also be great if you need more of an outliner, for example.
Craft may be more competitive with Notion, but I haven't played with that one as much...
I really wish Notion would focus a lot more on speed, though. It sometimes feel like loading a website on dialup...
First time I'm hearing about Logseq and Craft... I'll check them out.
Or maybe I shouldn't, considering how much time I spend on PKM when I could just be sticking with one of them and working on the actual "knowledge" part. 😅
Ha! Well, upfront time investment in tools can pay off big over many many years, as long as at some point you start looking for tools and actually use them!
True, I still use Notion for collaborating with team members. And there are some great wikis out there which are built entirely on Notion.