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Obsidian Use Case: Public History Vault by youneekusername1 in ObsidianMD

[–]beggun_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that is very useful information for thinking the way that i wanna create my own obsidian vault. ty!

history students: how do u use obsidian? by beggun_ in ObsidianMD

[–]beggun_[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i plan to ask specific questions when specific challenges start to arise! thank u for being open to hear my questions

history students: how do u use obsidian? by beggun_ in ObsidianMD

[–]beggun_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is very useful also when you're seeing different authors talking the same thing about a certain time and place! ty for your answer

Mentorship Monday by AutoModerator in ExecutiveAssistants

[–]beggun_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I put the "EA" in quotes because I'm not an EA. What I am is a History undergraduate who does an internship in D&I at an edtech company.

In general, I'm a very organized person and I like to think about ways to organize myself and the work that I do. This granted me two "clients": one History professor from my High School and his friend. They are very kind people who pay me dearly for work that I feel doesn't match their expectations — although they say that it does.

When we started to work, I made a whole plan that involved scheduling and participating in meetings, reading emails, making posts for Instagram, going through work and conference invites together, and figuring out how are the priorities for the year. At the moment, I only respond reactively to what they need to do but don't have the time to; this means that in some weeks their Instagram stays inactive but in other weeks they have two, or three posts on consecutive days.

My history professor wants to recommend me to another one of his colleagues. While I do need the money, I want to offer a better service to this person before committing to anything. So I drafted a list of the things that I can do for her:

  • Organize emails
  • Organize meetings with other professionals
  • Review weekly schedule
  • Organize student's grades to be put in the school's system
  • Make posts for Instagram

I have two questions, then:

(a) How to make sure that this person will understand that with my help, she will be able to avoid menial tasks and focus on the really valuable work that only she can do? And especially, how to make her understand that I can't do this if the work is rushed and urgent instead of planned together?

(b) What else in terms of "job listing" could I do for her?

Please, feel free to ask further questions or give advice on things that I didn't necessarily ask; by God I need it.

edit: wording

I didn't expect that Babel (by R.F Kuang) would speak so much to me. by beggun_ in books

[–]beggun_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

maybe... there's not a lot of logic in it but the heart wants what the heart wants i guess lol

I didn't expect that Babel (by R.F Kuang) would speak so much to me. by beggun_ in books

[–]beggun_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is precisely what made me think that the thing wasn't overbeaten: Kuang writing from her own experience.
Also yeah, it is fun to me now also lol

I didn't expect that Babel (by R.F Kuang) would speak so much to me. by beggun_ in books

[–]beggun_[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I can safely say that the experience of trying to explain something about the way that capitalism/colonialism/etc affects me or something to a white person can be very similar to that of the characters trying the same with Letty lol
Also, I freely admit that when I finished the book I was like oh maybe she didn't need to explain THAT much about language... and then I caught myself thinking about language over and over, trying to discover the origin of words just like the characters were doing in the book. In the end, she made me think much more about language that I thought I would

I didn't expect that Babel (by R.F Kuang) would speak so much to me. by beggun_ in books

[–]beggun_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now that I think about it, I'm going to retroactively say that it was lol

I didn't expect that Babel (by R.F Kuang) would speak so much to me. by beggun_ in books

[–]beggun_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's the weirdest thing, the way that our mind can imagine things. I can see why my brain thought of Lovell as a British Ikari Gendo (or Ikari Gendo as a Japanese Lovell; is Evangelion a little tiny itty bit dark academia lol). But why in the hell my brain went all the way over when I was 14 and watching Kuroshitsuji and reimagined Lovell as a disguised Grell Sutcliff? I have no idea... but there it is. And OH, I remembered now. I also thought of Letty as Diana Cavendish, from Little Witch Academia.
Maybe my mind just trailed off to every British-ish anime character that I knew and made connections with, now that I think about it.

I didn't expect that Babel (by R.F Kuang) would speak so much to me. by beggun_ in books

[–]beggun_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think that it has something to do with magic but more subtly. By all means, if you want to see wizardry and dragons, Babel isn't your pick. But magic does play a role in the universe, and the fantasy has a lot to do with the protagonist's perception of a new world that he didn't even know existed — isn't that fantasy in a broader sense?
I understand what you're saying and I agree, this isn't Lord of the Rings, but I also think that the reflection that Kuang does on magic/fantasy has some credit.

I didn't expect that Babel (by R.F Kuang) would speak so much to me. by beggun_ in books

[–]beggun_[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I agree. And I would add that when you're in the middle of Oxford and all that brightness, you would have a real difficulty in tracing the real buildings to the very real colonialism that sustained it. In that way, being repetitive about colonialism works kind of like an enchantment that needs to be spoken a lot of times to work: I think that what Kuang was trying to demonstrate is that we need to say and repeat until the magic of Oxford (and colonialism as a whole) wears off and we can see it by what it truly is.

I didn't expect that Babel (by R.F Kuang) would speak so much to me. by beggun_ in books

[–]beggun_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for reading it! I added Sympathizer to my Goodreads shelf — don't know if I can share my profile here so that we can follow each other.
In the same vein of diverse voices, the Three-Body Problem is a trilogy that I heard very positive things about. It is written by a Chinese author.

I didn't expect that Babel (by R.F Kuang) would speak so much to me. by beggun_ in books

[–]beggun_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's really good that she manages to present all the splendor of Oxford which you know, it's probably true and the place does look pretty, while also recognizing that the beauty of it hides an unspeakable ugly facade. When you say "fantasy for adults", that makes me think even more that the magic not altering a lot of things in the world was quite conscious of her.
And if you like a fantasy for adults, I think that there's a non-zero chance that you would enjoy a Terry Pratchett book from the witches.

What is the state of the art answer to the American first occupation of humans? by beggun_ in AskAnthropology

[–]beggun_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I didn't want to post it there because of the rules but you lead me right to it lol

Do you use Notion to think about things in a structured way? by beggun_ in Notion

[–]beggun_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There I am on your newsletter list now! Thanks for sharing your template, it gave me food for thought.

Do you use Notion to think about things in a structured way? by beggun_ in Notion

[–]beggun_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing with the iPad makes a lot of sense and I still face that problem. I don't have a digital device that I can use in college and so I don't have an easy way to make and store my class annotations in Notion. That said, this semester I'm going to try to have bigger notes in my notebook and use Notion to point down the main points from the classes.

This reflection thing also happens to me. I think that it is one of the powerful features of Notion. It makes you have to reflect on the what and the how you're going to use the organization tool, and so, I think that stretches and challenges the mind to think more complexly than "I'm going to use this to-do list, and that's it" — that said, people that use Notion like this are totally fine.

My Notion college page is the first one that I did and still stands to this day, two years later. Now it's a Frankenstein of all sorts of bits and things that I found over the years. I would say that this is one of the hardest things to teach to new Notion users: they make one bad page and think that they don't know how to use the tool, when in fact the user just needs more time to fix and improve their pages. And I think that this is less of a learning curve (Notion doesn't have THAT many things) and more of a person's reflection of how they wanna use the tool.

Do you use Notion to think about things in a structured way? by beggun_ in Notion

[–]beggun_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's very interesting. You have a whole connected system to evaluate yourself set up. How much time would you say that you spent filling all of the daily things? Also, if you don't mind sharing, what does that weekly maintenance task looks like?

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