Flaccidkasten

From:
Scott P. Scheper
Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.
Thursday, 3:21 p.m.

Dear Friend,

Whenever I need a good laugh, I like to do one thing...

I like to visit the subreddit of Zettelkasten. You see, the subreddit for Zettelkasten is actually run by digital productivity junkies. These individuals have no basis or right to run the Zettelkasten community. The reason why they control the community is because one of them was the first to create a Zettelkasten subreddit——that's it——that stands as their only qualification for "curating" the Zettelkasten community.

The mods on the Zettelkasten subreddit spend their days debugging metadata tags and trying to quiet the cognitive dissonance they experience knowing they have zero idea how a Zettelkasten actually works. The reason they have zero idea of how a Zettelkasten works is because they've never actually built out an analog version——the true version——the Antinet version! This nefarious little fact continues to rise to the surface...

No Matter How Hard They Try to Push It Down!

Right now as I am scanning the subreddit, the posts are such things as "How do you limit your notes?" In this thread, a lost soul is trying to figure out how he can constrain himself from creating endlessly long Obsidian notes. Instead, he's trying to ascribe to the natural constraints that a 4x6" notecards provide. If he just used an analog Zettelkasten (how it was meant to be used), he wouldn't have to waste his mind energy beating his head against the wall with such a dumb question.

What's even more amusing is that there are 16 comments with a bunch of hand-waving and long verbal diarrhea of how to actually create synthetic surface level constraints in the digital PKM environment.

This is Just a Symptom of the Underlying Sickness!

The next thread has the following title: "My hybrid analog/digital Zettelkasten process." This individual is doing something that I see so many people try to do——and then after six months, they realize how futile their effort is. This individual has outlined a massive post about his compromise of trying to use a digital and analog Zettelkasten together. It is followed by 10 comments of a bunch of other people that are hand waving and have no idea what they're talking about.

The very next thread in the subreddit is titled "Zettelkasten app for handwritten notes". This individual is also suffering from the denial that if you want to get the most output out of a Zettelkasten...

Digital Is Not the Way!

This person——instead of writing his notes and installing it in his analog notebox and then using it to produce knowledge——instead duplicates his work and effort by trying to finagle and take photographs of his Zettelkasten cards and insert it into an Obsidian plugin. It almost feels like a joke.

As you scroll this subreddit, you realize that this is a procrastinator's wet dream. All of these digital bubble graph boys spend their days and nights farting around over metadata conventions and ideas instead of actually producing knowledge.

About eight months ago, I created a poll and a thread in the Zettelkasten subreddit asking people to post the book they created using their actual Zettelkasten. Heck, even one of the premier bubble graph boys admits that he wrote his most recent book without using a Zettelkasten!

This is Hilarious!

Sadly, these idiots are leading many newbies astray. The last thread I'll share made me laugh even harder. It is one titled "Restarting My Zettelkasten for the Third Time." This individual outlined how after trying to start a digital Zettelkasten, he has gone back and finally created an analog one. And this is a pattern I see surface over and over again.

There is a sickness that exists within these digital Zettelkasten communities. They try to flush it down and flush it away——but after a year or even two years of following some hipster's advice in the digital Zettelkasten community——they realize that for the past few years they've done nothing of substance.

And what I am realizing here is that all of these individuals teaching digital Zettelkasten are not teaching Zettelkasten at all. They're teaching a perverse version of Zettelkasten, which I call...

"Flaccidkasten"

Flaccidkasten is a limp version of Zettelkasten without any hard rules.

This is what you find all of the Zettelkasten moderators suffering from. Most of the gurus out there also suffer from this pernicious dysfunction.

This is something I outline in Issue No. 22 of The Scott Scheper Letter. This issue is going to share with you one of the most overlooked aspects of Zettelkasten. It is something that is highlighted by the scholar Johannes Schmidt in his well-researched paper on Luhmann's Zettelkasten. I will be bringing this to light in Issue No. 22 of The Scott Scheper Letter.

I highly advise you pick up Issue No. 22 of The Scott Scheper Letter. There are only four days left at the time of this writing.

After you do, on the first of this month, I am going to package up and send to you the best piece of knowledge about creating a real Zettelkasten. It is going to be hand-delivered by the mailman and placed into your mailbox in a hard packaged envelope that says "fragile" on it. When you open the envelope, you will encounter a stunning physical newsletter——one that could cause the mods of the Zettelkasten Reddit community to clutch their pearls and scream in terror. You may want to hold it in your hands and just look at it. You may detect a fresh hint of that wonderful scent of freshly printed paper and come to relish it.

I don't want you to end up putting your work up on Reddit. I want to help you become the writer, thinker, creator you were born to be. I want to show you the magic of a true Zettelkasten. An Antinet Zettelkasten. I want you to experience the indescribable feeling of creating real knowledge. That moment where sparks are flying and lightning seems to hit. That moment that can only happen in the confines of the real, the physical, the analog.

This is an invitation. To step into a world you may not fully understand yet. It is a leap you must make. To trust that the analog way could be the best way. The only way. The way that will not only allow you to create genius level thoughts——but also bring you a level of intellectual satisfaction you may not have grasped is possible.

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Warm regards,

And always remember,

To stay crispy, my friend.

Scott P. Scheper

"A Man Who Is Committed to Help You Avoid Flaccidkasten!"

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