The Gas Town announcement blog post is quite a read.
Partway through reading it I realized two things: First, it seemed very important. Second, it was really long and complex, and I would need a map to keep everything straight.
So I started building one.
Then I realized I didn't want to need to keep consulting the map for every little thing, so I slowed down. I started reading it incrementally and made spaced repetition prompts as I went along. I also tried to figure out what the motivating problems were, and how Gas Town addressed them, so that the nitty-gritty roles and naming became less confusing.
The result was basically a wiki with a densely-linked glossary and a bunch of spaced repetition prompts that align with each section of the blog post. It's somewhat similar to "Quantum Country", if you remember that amazing post from several years ago, but for the "Welcome to Gas Town" blog post.
I also included a "download the markdown notes" button, in case you want to pull some of the markdown notes into your own notes. If you use Obsidian, the spaced repetition prompts work with the popular Obsidian spaced repetition plugin.
Anyhow, I know the original Gas Town post is a couple months old at this point, but it took me a while to get this thing into reasonable shape where I think it could be helpful to others. I hope you like it!
mikeg0•17m ago
Gas Town is a little overwhelming to learn. I'm just beginning. It's hard to know where to start.
But wow! Your meadow-notes.com app is pretty cool. You're providing both the ability to selectively share knowledge, but also to learn from it using spaced repetition. Pretty cool Ed Tech!!
gmccreight2•1h ago
Partway through reading it I realized two things: First, it seemed very important. Second, it was really long and complex, and I would need a map to keep everything straight.
So I started building one.
Then I realized I didn't want to need to keep consulting the map for every little thing, so I slowed down. I started reading it incrementally and made spaced repetition prompts as I went along. I also tried to figure out what the motivating problems were, and how Gas Town addressed them, so that the nitty-gritty roles and naming became less confusing.
The result was basically a wiki with a densely-linked glossary and a bunch of spaced repetition prompts that align with each section of the blog post. It's somewhat similar to "Quantum Country", if you remember that amazing post from several years ago, but for the "Welcome to Gas Town" blog post.
I also included a "download the markdown notes" button, in case you want to pull some of the markdown notes into your own notes. If you use Obsidian, the spaced repetition prompts work with the popular Obsidian spaced repetition plugin.
Anyhow, I know the original Gas Town post is a couple months old at this point, but it took me a while to get this thing into reasonable shape where I think it could be helpful to others. I hope you like it!