Welcome to my Digital Garden!
This is the place where I share my notes on just about everything since February 2022. If you have some time to spare and want to explore, here are some great starting points:
- HomeLab
- Detection Engineering & Purple Teaming & Penetration Testing
- Digital Forensics & Incident Response
- Electronic Music Production
RSS Feed
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https://notes.tillstuder.com/index.xml
Maps of Content
Maps of Content, or MOCs for short, serve as a way to mark and organize the most prominent areas. To classify a note as a MOC, I use the MOC tag and list the most relevant notes directly under the note’s “Atlas” header.
Tagging
Notes are tagged with the status or stage they are part of. Currently, the following statuses exist:
| Status | Description |
|---|---|
| dump | This is used for brain dumps or new notes in general |
| elaborate | When the content of the note doesn’t satisfy me, I apply this tag indicating that it needs some more work |
| link | Used when the content satisfies, but the backlinks to existing and future notes have not been established yet |
| done | This is used when a note is considered done. This doesn’t mean that changes aren’t allowed, they happen quite often, but for the time being I’m done with the note |
| timeout | These are notes where progress has not been made in a long time, but I also don’t want to delete what has been already written |
Goals for This Garden
- Build a basic understanding across a wide range of subjects by understanding the gist of its main topics. → Pareto Principle
- Force myself to thoroughly work through the articles I read, rather than read, highlight and forget.
- Uncover connections between ideas I otherwise wouldn’t have found.
- Working With The Garage Door Up
Guiding Principles and Questions for effective Note-taking
- Feynman Technique
- Only write if you instinctively know what to write.
- Translate the ideas into your own words, but keep the original meaning.
- What is not meant or excluded from the claim and why?
- What does the question’s phrasing include and what does it exclude?
- What distinctions have been made and why?
- Is there any proof that the proposed idea does not work? → Tools for Research
- Does this idea conflict with an existing idea? → finding errors is good!
- Does this idea complement an existing idea? → link it or merge them
- What does this idea mean for the other ideas in the space?
- What are the idea’s broader implications outside its space?
- How can this concept be applied to other subjects? → tinker with the idea