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| title: "Internal Family Systems" | ||
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| pubDate: 23-Jun-2023 | ||
| updatedDate: 23-Jun-2023 | ||
| tags: [topic/social-sciences] | ||
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| The Internal Family Systems Model is an integrative approach to individual psychotherapy developed by Richard C. Schwartz in the 1980s. It combines systems thinking with the view that the mind is made up of relatively discrete sub-personalities, each with its own unique viewpoint and qualities. IFS uses systems psychology, particularly as developed for family therapy, to understand how these collections of sub-personalities are organized. | ||
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| Read more about it: https://ifs-institute.com/ |
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| title: "Most Days" | ||
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| pubDate: 23-Jun-2023 | ||
| updatedDate: 23-Jun-2023 | ||
| tags: ["topic/technology", "project/104-days"] | ||
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| This note is the **ninth** letter in the [[104-days-of-summer-vacation]] series. You can also follow the full twitter thread [here](https://twitter.com/solderneer/status/1668911213810716672), and leave any thoughts and comments that might come up! | ||
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| **Dearest Reader,** | ||
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| It's been slightly more than 1 week since I started the [[104-days-of-summer-vacation]] experiment, and it is almost 2 weeks into the start of my summer vacation proper. Tomorrow, I will be flying to India for a week, to spend some time with my grandparents, and so I felt that today would be a good time to do a retrospective. | ||
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| In [[summer-2023]], I outlined some key objectives for this summer. In general, it's quite clear to me after 2 weeks, that I put down way more goals than what I could reasonably accomplish. But in this letter, I'll just be going over and reviewing each of those objectives. | ||
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| **Goal 1:** With the [[104-days-of-summer-vacation]] experiment, things are going well and on track although I've missed a couple of days. I think that's okay, I have to approach this with a little bit of forgiveness - that's why this letter is titled `most-days`. | ||
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| **Goal 2:** I have not started on the long form pieces yet, because I haven't had any experience that has deeply inspired me to write in long-form. | ||
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| **Goal 3:** The [[90-day-transformation]] challenge is still ongoing, and it is great that I am able to keep my exercise practices alive and well. The India trip will be a downer on this, but I should be able to pick right back up after. | ||
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| **Goal 4:** The work on developing a website for Happily Ever After is ongoing and I am excited for you to see it soon! | ||
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| **Goal 5 and 6:** I haven't had time to start on these yet, but I probably will once I'm back from India. | ||
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| **Goal 7:** I went to [[the-zuzalan-dream-2|a social event]] last week, but haven't managed to go to one this week. | ||
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| **Goal 8:** I've been trying to tweet more often, but again finding it very hard to remember. | ||
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| **Goal 9:** I have started to apply for grants and fellowships! But I've yet to hear back, I also managed to curate a list/tracker for these applications on Notion which has been useful. | ||
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| **Goal 10:** This is coming together nicely, we will be scheduling our first meeting once I'm back from India! | ||
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| I think broadly speaking, I'm quite happy about progress on Goal 1, 3, 4, 9 and 10! And I am lukewarm on the rest. But it's okay, all in good time. | ||
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| ~ Shan |
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| title: "Self-Socratic Dialogues" | ||
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| pubDate: 22-Jun-2023 | ||
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| tags: ["topic/technology", "project/104-days"] | ||
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| This note is the **eighth** letter in the [[104-days-of-summer-vacation]] series. You can also follow the full twitter thread [here](https://twitter.com/solderneer/status/1668911213810716672), and leave any thoughts and comments that might come up! | ||
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| **Dearest Reader,** | ||
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| This letter is backlogged, I am writing this on the 23rd of June, but in my defense, there is incredible joy in getting fully absorbed into making something work. That's what consumed me for the most of yesterday, and I hope that a similar kind of focus state might bless you as well. | ||
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| Ever since LLMs went mainstream, I've wondered how natural language processing techniques might enable us to interact with our past. As a [quantified self](https://quantifiedself.com/) nerd, and a person who obsesses over personal knowledge management techniques, it would really be incredible to be able to talk to myself as simulated by a LLM. | ||
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| _Self-socratic dialogues_ as I might call them, dialogues which are arguments and discussions between an embodied, present self and the past self as recorded through personal writings and notes. I briefly mentioned this in [[i-write-for-thought-lego]]. | ||
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| This could be as rudimentary as being able to ask, in natural language, how I felt on a specific day and having that be pulled from my daily notes. Or it could be as advanced as a tool which helps to pull together different streams of thought to compose something original. I've also wanted to integrate something like this into [my website](https://solderneer.me) for a while now, so that visitors can use generative semantic search to ask questions on my written repo of notes. | ||
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| Which brings me back to the focus state that consumed me yesterday. I stumbled across [txtai](https://github.com/neuml/txtai) which is a neat little python library that enables semantic search workflows, and ended up writing a script to run a basic version of what I envisioned. | ||
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| <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NNVnNmH7OLs" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> | ||
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| The results are, really good actually! It did definitely help surface a lot of thoughts which I didn't even recall having, and it is especially cool that the embeddings and indexing is all done locally at a reasonable pace. The only time an external API call is required, is to invoke the HuggingFace model with the context-enhanced prompt. | ||
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| And I can clearly see how workflows like this could really empower human agency when done right. My next steps might be to work out how to integrate some of this technology into my workflow in Obsidian. Some thoughts off the top of my head are: | ||
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| 1. Automatic topic classification from a list of topics | ||
| 2. Suggested "similar notes" for linking based on semantic distance | ||
| 3. Building generative semantic search into an Obsidian plugin | ||
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| It's also interesting what parallels might be drawn between self-socratic dialogues and psychological methods like [[internal-family-systems]]. Could self-socratic dialogue also have therapeutic use cases, like the ability to become more self-aware by externalizing your thoughts into an LLM and inspecting them? One of the original names I had for this letters was `semantic-soul-searching` which I thought was quite funny. | ||
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| Anyway, needless to say, there's lots more to experiment with as the technology slowly gets integrated into stuff we use everyday. [[manufactured-normalcy]] will probably prevail in the end, I can imagine a time where generative semantic search is just going to be everywhere and we take it for granted. | ||
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| In the meantime, find something to obsess over for a day. I promise it's fun :) | ||
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| ~ Shan |
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