I agree that for the act of learning, the tactility of paper is a huge benefit. But for preserving and recalling notes and highlights, electronic wins. I can have hundreds of books or papers on whichever device I'm on and look up notes and annotations I've made over several years.

I've tried figuring out how to get the best of both worlds, but maybe you really just need to decide which trade-off to go with.

You can come reasonably close by scanning & OCRing your notebooks. (And having numbered pages in your notebooks)

It's not great, but it's improving searchability quite a bit.

Massive +1 to Zotero. And 7 is out of beta now!

I recently went back to school and started using Zotero again. Reading and annotating books and papers on iPad, and then having access to all of my notes when writing on desktop is such a simple but amazing feature.

That part immediately made me think of a particular scene from Silicon Valley.

This reminded me very heavily of the False Hydra creature from Dungeons & Dragons.

If the salary is market rate for that person, I suppose it's by definition a fair deal. I've seen startups hire "founding xyz" two years after they started. Looks to be a vanity title in many cases.

Total comp needs to be market rate, not just salary. And non-preferred shares should be valued lower than preferred stock. Lumping non-preferred shares with prefereed shares is one of the bigger lies startups tell employees.

Reminds me of a UX course I took many years ago at uni.

As an exercise, we were asked to come up with a solution to help people navigate campus. There were so many suggestions for apps or interactive touch screens. Someone suggested installing terminals where you type where you want to go, and then the floor lights up with directions. Someone else did the same, only it would launch a drone for you to follow.

I suggested hanging printed paper maps on the walls with "you are here" stickers.

What was the result of the exercise? Who's solution was "correct"?

I would install direction indicators, like the ones on the roads.

I think we used the solutions as a vehicle for discussion, rather than settling on a "correct" one. Though I can't recall for certain, it was well over a decade ago.

Yours is a good supplement, whichever method is otherwise used. I'm partial to cheap, analog solutions. Though, installing quality signage on a large campus can quickly become more expensive than a simple app.

> I suggested hanging printed paper maps on the walls with "you are here" stickers

&thumbsup;

> extends to include Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish

* cries in Faroese *

That stuck out to me too. There is a (not universally accepted) idea that language itself determines our capacity for understanding, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. While it traditionally relates to humans, I've been casually working to apply it to LLMs as well.

see my reply above

I want my regular drinking water to be as free of microplastics as possible, but is contamination from plastic containers dangerous enough to be of any concern during an emergency situation?

You can care about two things at the same time.