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Pursuing a doctoral degree is very painful.

The entire education system seems to be preparing for this moment when you can finally stop consuming and start increasing human knowledge. When you are ultimately expected to self-study. To solve practical problems. Those questions that nobody knows the answer to.

But by then, my momentum had slowed down a lot. My academic career no longer holds any attraction for me, and my research and writing have stagnated.

Although it may seem like 'all I need to do' is spend months writing down my work on paper, 'at least 100 pages', I just can't move forward.

Why? Just like anyone who has written a paper, novel, or any other major work: when it comes to maintaining focus, size is important. I have tried various word processors, outlines, mind maps, wikis, and tiddly wikis... but I have found that nothing can help me organize everything I need to write, and it does not immediately become fascinating.

I did learn something during the exploration. Mind maps have taught me the value of continuous placement (the brain excels in spatial reasoning). The Outsider taught me the power of hierarchy. TiddlyWikis taught me how to focus on cards or large chunks of content. Slowly, the idea of using card levels without hiding any cards began to take shape.

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For me, ginkgo is just a small part of my overall goal. I believe that 'wealth' has nothing to do with money, but rather the freedom we as humans possess through friendship.

My greater goal is to create the conditions for others to invent ginkgo during my graduate studies: freedom and self guidance, plus basic allowances.

On this point, I agree with Buckminster Fuller's viewpoint:

We should abandon the absolutely paradoxical notion that everyone must make a living. The fact today is that one in ten thousand of us can achieve technological breakthroughs that can support everyone else

What we need to do is to make this possible.