Lois on writing her quals paper:
I keep wanting to add links. Links to definitions, links to more information, links to blogs that have discussed the academic article that I’m presenting, links to other sections of the paper itself that build upon this section. I have been subsumed by hypertext linking.
Somewhere along the line I have stopped just thinking non-linearly and have begun expecting my world to function on multiple planes. I think this is good…but frustrating since this paper has to be presented on paper and paper is boringly, traditionally linear. *sigh*
Very recognisable:
[...] it pains every time I try to squeeze a web of ideas into a tree structure when writing.
In a context of my PhD blogging is drafting in hypertext before it’s ready for a linear representation…
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