Chris Aldrich Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Biomedical Engineer https://t.co/QxutCuVBSM #IndieWeb, education, information theory, math, mnemotechny, history (he/him) @chrisaldrich@boffosocko.com

Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age
Ann M. Blair
A new session of @AllossoDan's synoptic online Obsidian-based book club starts April 2 for 5 weeks with: - The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Annie Murphy Paul - Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age by Ann M. Blair https://t.co/C1aQFNxWcv
Paperback, 2011
$27.50$13.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe
Alberto Cevolini
@MikeKra36812131 Sounds like some of the same broad thesis in Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe, edited by Alberto Cevolini which does touch on #zettelkasten similar to that in Lila. https://t.co/oT1eAoQbiH
Hardcover, 2016
$202.00$177.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Introduction to the Study of History
Charles Seignobos
#Zettelkasten Method State of the Art in 1898 Charles Victor Langlois and Charles Seignobos. Introduction to the Study of History. Translated by George Godfrey Berry. Henry Holt & Co., 1898. #ToolsForThought #HistoricalMethod https://t.co/TuB5YK1piT
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Notebook: 120ページの線と灰色の線の数字。 &#
Perfect Notes
This small, green pocket memo book with a “frame” layout seems to be the perfect form factor for short handwritten notes to post to Twitter. A Twitter notebook if you will. Thanks Midori. (https://t.co/lEIVDfQI6z) https://t.co/zRKVweTWHO
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How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
Sönke Ahrens
@GeneviveBjorn @PhDVoice Thanks for this Genevive! Your framework reminds me of some similar older note making methods from several generations back which are having a resurgence, thanks in part to Sönke Ahrens' How to Take Smart Notes and many new applications. https://t.co/J4EOs4QKQl
Paperback, 2022
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830
Matthew Daniel Eddy
Delving into an early version of chapter 1, I have to reiterate how much I can't wait to get all of @bookscribbler's Media and the Mind: Art, Science and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 (@UChicagoPress, Dec 2022) #ToolsForThought #NoteTaking https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo173084820.html
Hardcover, 2023
$65.00$40.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Mathematical Theory of Communication
Claude E. Shannon
@brunowinck @codexeditor @alanlaidlaw When thinking about this, recall that in the second paragraph of The Mathematical Theory of Communication (University of Illinois Press, 1949), Claude Shannon explicitly separates the semantic meaning from the engineering problem of communication. https://t.co/q4yfk8c7kQ
Paperback, 1963
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cornell Notebook: Abstract Pastel - 120 White Pages 8.5x11" - Note Taking System
Cornell Notes
Contextualizing Cornell Notes in the Note Taking Traditions Are we not taking the idea far enough into the writing realm? #CornellNotes #NoteTaking #CommonplaceBooks #PKM #Zettelkasten https://t.co/jEhXM5USQU
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
@elipariser @daphne_manuela Following on this, Robin Wall Kimmerer has some excellent material in Braiding Sweetgrass. I'm appreciating Elinor Ostrom's work on the commons. @AnneApplebaum's articles/books & @KateRaworth's Donut Economics all tie into these areas too.
Paperback, 2015
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
Nicholson Baker
@thehighpony @Extended_Brain @JKattnis @soenke_ahrens @zsviczian @TfTHacker @obsdmd @bianca_oli_per Nicholson Baker had some interesting input on the topic in "The Size of Thoughts": https://t.co/HLznODFH3b https://t.co/k711dPLrcv
Paperback, 1997
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book