Watanabe's episode about Indexcard
One of Watanabe Shoichi’s book “知的生活の方法 (Chiteki Seikatsu no Houhou, A Way to Intellectual Life, 1976)” is filled with tons of his ‘lifehacks’.
He introduced an episode with card system (indexcard + card box) during his stay in Germany as student. A German professor suggested to use card system. Following the hint, he immediately got card box, and start to use it for his research. After a year, he write 300 pages of doctor thesis and got doctor degree successfully.
Revised : 2006.11.26
May 26th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
First of all I would like to congratulate you for your excellent webpage. I am from Germany, so I have to apologize for my bad English.
I would really like to thank you for finally explaining Niklas Luhmann’s Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen in a way I understand. I have struggled badly long time to understand the orignial German text, but after reading your blog it finally makes sense to me.
Ciao,
mwebtopac
January 1st, 2012 at 12:21 pm
That’s a smart way of liokong at the world.