x51 labs

Imagine finishing a study session.

So far, we’ve been going over a learning arc that has stayed firmly inside your head.

Think about the last time you learned something from someone who was clearly better at it than you.

In a previous post, I argued that learning is a retrieval problem, and as a result, quizzing and testing as a learning mechanism beats persistent re-reading.

The so-called “testing effect” is a core memory and learning concept straight out of most learning theory textbooks, but it’s one of the best ways to hack learning and retention.

I’ve been slowly going through a significant archive of all the writing I did across decades on the Internet.

Behavior has mass.

The benefit of blogging while also being engaged in a PhD program is that all of you (loyal readers) get to partake of my train of thought throughout random discussion post topics.

In Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective, Dale Schunk states that “Learning theories and teaching practices ideally should affect one another,” which is the ideal outcome of developing learning theories to begin with.

This week is the first week of my latest PhD course with this one titled: Learning Theory in Psychology, and I’m a little excited about it because, well… I specialize in learning theories—especially with how they relate to human-computer interaction (HCI).

I spent the weekend camping with the Boy Scouts (now Scouting America).

Names.

November 21st, 2024 was the last time I wrote something of meaning on the Internet, and it wasn’t long after that when I deleted my very written existence from cyberspace.

I don’t get my cards read.

Web site can be two words or one.

There is an excellent folk horror documentary called Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched.

We all build our own mythologies, and those mythologies are based on past experiences that shape not just what we want the future to be, but also what we want the past to be.

It may seem as if I’ve been absent from posts, but behind the scenes, I’ve been continuing the consolidation of my past Internet wanderings.

Aleister Crowley was never as influential on me as he was on some people.

Although I won’t say that I collect vinyl records, I can certainly tell you that my vinyl record collection has grown over the course of the last 12-18 months.

How many New Year’s resolutions have been broken over the course of several decades?

When Apple TV+ released the first season of Foundation, I realized that I hadn’t read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series at all—only being familiar with his robot tales.

I never really paid much attention to who Mitch Horowitz was until Douglas Rushkoff had him on a live special on Team Human.

Yesterday I took my black gi from Kajukenbo and all my Kaj and Aikido belts and put them in the trash can.

When I first dove into the Internet I had started an ecommerce site during a time when you had to type “online bookstore” into Altavista in order to find Amazon on the web.

I mentioned previously that I pulled over a number of Codepunk and Apotheosis articles under x51 to mostly represent a “best of,” and a consolidation of various writing projects over the decades.

I promised myself that this new blog would not tetter off into the past with immersive odes to nostalgia.

In the early 2000’s I was a co-founder of a counterculture and occult group blog called Key 23 (now defunct and existing only in the memory of the Internet).

As I start writing this, it’s January 2nd, 2024.

One area that is a large focus for me in my work life has been DevOps automations—specifically integrating DevOps with older, legacy and potentially monolithic solutions.

Still shut down.

For a brief moment in time, I attempted to blog under a different domain and Internet handle to be unencumbered by a “personal brand.”

For a brief moment in time, I attempted to blog under a different domain and Internet handle to be unencumbered by a “personal brand.”

For a brief moment in time, I attempted to blog under a different domain and Internet handle to be unencumbered by a “personal brand.”

For a brief moment in time, I attempted to blog under a different domain and Internet handle to be unencumbered by a “personal brand.”

I used to blog consistently.

I’ve blogged in some form or another since around 2000—long before there were any viable blogging engines or platforms out there.

For a brief moment in time, I attempted to blog under a different domain and Internet handle to be unencumbered by a “personal brand.”

This post is a rewrite from the Apotheosis project, and was previously published in both blog and podcast form on Codepunk.

This post is a rewrite from the Apotheosis project, and was previously published in both blog and podcast form on Codepunk. 2022 has mostly certainly been a year of purging.

For a brief moment in time, I attempted to blog under a different domain and Internet handle to be unencumbered by a “personal brand.”

For a brief moment in time, I attempted to blog under a different domain and Internet handle to be unencumbered by a “personal brand.”

The story of the Russian Internet is a story that reaches as far back as early dissident papers and the birth of telecoms in the region.

This post is a rewrite from the Apotheosis project, and was previously published in both blog and podcast form on Codepunk.

For a brief moment in time, I attempted to blog under a different domain and Internet handle to be unencumbered by a “personal brand.”

For a brief moment in time, I attempted to blog under a different domain and Internet handle to be unencumbered by a “personal brand.”

For a brief moment in time, I attempted to blog under a different domain and Internet handle to be unencumbered by a “personal brand.”

Yesterday I was going through my GitHub “starred” projects on my phone using the beta “lists” feature to organize them.

For a brief moment in time, I attempted to blog under a different domain and Internet handle to be unencumbered by a “personal brand.”

I had heard bits and pieces about Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, but it was mostly sitting on my wish list as something I’d get to in the future until the Exponential View reading group picked it for their book club.