— VerifyYourBrain

I'm completely new to blockchain, @hive, HiveBloPoMo and a long list of other things Web 3.0.

I chose Shadows' essay as my very first piece of content to consume because she is a generous person and a rock star of a writer. She is introducing me to blockchain, peakD and hive. Now, here she is blowing my mind with what is possible in this world with content creation. But how the hell can she also distill in <700 words what I've been studying on a half-dozen pricey six-week long courses to learn?

Describing Niklas Luhmann's note-taking method, Zettlekasten, she smoothly writes,
"he...was successful in having his books accepted retroactively as his PHD thesis."

Wait. What? He got his PhD without the dissertation angst?!
That's freaking noteworthy!

Good to see you stick your toe into the comment section. Commenting is a big part of the community on Hive. So, feel free to 'chat' away on posts. You'll find people appreciate the input.

The story of Luhmann's prolific work really is fascinating. He self-taught himself to the point he had the work for his PHD already in place before someone said "Hey, you should be a prof". Then he just went back to his cool note-taking system and drew on what he already had.

Imagine if school children were taught that system from an early grade? To not just memorize facts to get grades but to integrate facts into their knowledge base and find connections between their learning. I think the results would be amazing.