Tech — Work — Ramblings

by Mike Kalvas

I see you're not using JavaScript (which is awesome!) on one of my pages that uses it to provide a better experience. If you see something not working right, please let me know. My site should work exactly the same without it apart from any exceptions noted here.

I use prism.min.js to do syntax highlighting. It clocks in at 23kb total in size. Since the majority of the writing I do involves coding, I personally find this to be a worthwhile trade off. If you choose to keep this disabled, rest assured, the code examples are still there, they just may have some extra whitespace and obviously no syntax highlighting.

I do no tracking at all and am a zealot about keeping my pages as small as possible. If you're reading a page of mine that transfers more than about 250kb over the wire (including my most gratuitous indulgence — fonts) I've messed up.

So, if you'd like to have a slightly richer experience, consider enabling javascript for my site and I promise your trust won't be misplaced.

202109091125 Free association of thought

Free association of thought is the expression of thoughts without censorship as an aid in gaining access to unconscious processes.¹ When we freely associate thoughts, we allow for connections to be made that don't come from conscious rational thought. These can be unconscious connections or just non-obvious ones that we might not have thought of while actively analyzing our thoughts.

Both 202109091124 Anti-flow state and 202109090947 Idea gardening use this method for cultivating ideas and insight.

Wikipedia contributors. (2021). Free association (psychology). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Free_association_(psychology)&oldid=1027392010 ↩