Lately I want to work on Arxana, but also on an "annotated bibliography" supporting my work. Ideally the two projects would be combined to make a nice semantically-linked-together bibliography. In the mean time, my goal is just to work on both of them every day til I'm satisfied.
Today, in addition to noting that there are a lot of bibliography items listen in the HDM Related pages, I'll mention some additional items here.
Before I get into that, I'll first mention that one department chair who I knew told me never to trust books, because they are never really up to date. I suppose that may be true, but one could contrast that with Donald Knuth's statement about wanting to get to the bottom of things. Books may be helpful for that.
Another task that I want to work on, which could merge with the bibliography project if we expand it to include some other classes of useful media resources… finding a new job or some other position.
I recently submitted an application for a fellowship and that does a reasonable job describing the sort of thing I'd like to be doing. So, with that as a prototype, the next big bibliogaphy-like question is: what are possible places to do this sort of thing?
--jcorneli
Given that you – apparently – require funding to perform your work, I suggest approaching this from an Out Of Context perspective. Different modes of thought manifest in the actions of doers of the four Ways: the Way of the farmer, the Way of the merchant, the Way of the gentleman warrior, and the Way of the artisan. A Book Of Five Rings.
Therefore, go out into the field and spend time working in each of these Ways. When you return, gold coins and data in hand, you will have the resources to write a book and create software embodying the vision of your book. And then the money will flow in from people and groups who wish to gain from your mastery. One place to begin would be building Earthships in Taos… --ocat
The details are: I need income primarily to survive, and I have that; and I can work on both writing and coding at present. What I don't have is a particularly supportive environment from the point of view of non-monetary, non-survival-oriented, life-enhancing resources. It is true that money can be exchanged for those sorts of resources (for example, if I had a car, I could drive to XYZ location to talk to someone who I was interested in talking to), but the primary purpose I had in mind with that fellowship was to get plugged in directly to such resources. It is true that they pay, but lots of jobs that pay don't give much access to relevant resources apart from money. Most end up taking a lot of time, too! So, I'm strongly in favor of salutory worldly experience… but I wanted to clarify, I don't view a new job or additional funding or even new interesting experiences as additional ingredients I need to continue to do good work. After I completely exhaust the resources here, then I will absolutely need to move on/up/out. But I don't want to massively interupt the patterns I have engaged here right now! Your example seems like a great idea for something to look forward to as a "buffer" into which I could leap if I don't locate and obtain a job like the fellowship that seems like a smooth transition from what I am currently up to.
--jcorneli