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The Creative Programmer
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The Creative Programmer

by Wouter Groeneveld
June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
232 pages
8h 15m
English
Manning Publications
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2 Technical knowledge

This chapter covers

  • How to gather, internalize, and act on knowledge
  • The Zettelkasten knowledge management technique
  • A workflow for keeping smart notes

A lonely crow disturbs the otherwise peaceful silence of an ancient Corsican night. A Spanish-born Roman citizen passes the evening with his two best friends: pen and ink. After being exiled from Rome by the dictator Claudius, Seneca the Younger spent eight highly productive years on the island of Corsica, publishing various consolations on anger and death. Writing, as Seneca proclaimed, is how one should exercise oneself. Not a single night would pass without him writing in his journal. As he explained to a friend, “I scan the whole of my day and retrace all my deeds and ...

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