blue – commonplace books green – index cards, slips, zettelkasten traditions purple – orality light teal – dictionary compilations red – productivity methods Book Club on Cataloging the World and Index, A History of the Dan Allosso has been hosting a regular book club for a few years cente...
Today, the internet and its vast store of material has revived interest in commonplace books, and technology to manage them has emerged. You kept it, but can you find it? This is where EssentialPIM comes in. Many still prefer the old-fashioned index cards or notebooks, but software like...
Reaktion Books. Farrer, J. (2010). Eating the west and beating the rest: Culinary Occidentalism and urban soft power in Asia's global food cities. In J. Farrer (Ed.), Globalization, food and social identities in the Asia Pacific region (pp. 128–149). Sophia University Institute of ...
In global cities such as London and Tokyo, there are neighbourhoods where ethnic, religious, cultural and other forms of diversity associated with migration are commonplace and others where migrants are regarded as unusual or even out-of-place. In both types of contexts, migrant-run eateries are...
In general, I liked this book and found it encouraging and informative. I also found it a bit dull and repetitive in places and it took me longer to read this book than it might have for books of similar length. This is more of a matter of personal taste than a judgment of the qual...
Some key quotes from the NYT piece: Goldman, leading the way as always, with an index of death: Goldman Sachs has developed a tradable index of life settlements, enabling investors to bet on whether people will live longer than expected or die sooner than planned. The index is similar to ...
Today, the internet and its vast store of material has revived interest in commonplace books, and technology to manage them has emerged. You kept it, but can you find it? This is where EssentialPIM comes in. Many still prefer the old-fashioned index cards or notebooks, but software like EP...