Luhmann famously stated he didn't think alone but thought with his Zettelkasten as a conversational partner, because the density of connections built over four decades allowed looking up one idea for a new paper to surface surprising, deeply tangential ideas filed away 20 years prior, generating insights that linear reading could never produce.
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“Luhmann famously stated that he didn't think alone. He thought with the Zettelkasten. It was a conversational partner. Because of the sheer density of the connections he built... Looking up one idea for a new paper would surface surprising, deeply tangential ideas he had filed away 20 years prior. He was generating insights that linear, traditional reading could never possibly produce.”
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