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What is going on here? (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

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In his 1959 classic, The Sociological Imagination, the great sociologist C. Wright Mills told students of the discipline: As a social scientist, you have to … capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman. But how can you do this? One answer is: you must set up a blog… In such a blog … there is joined personal experience and professional activities, studies under way and studies planned. In this blog, you … will try to get together what you are doing intellectually and what you are experiencing as a person. here you will not be afraid to use your experience and relate it directly to various work in progress. By serving as a check on repetitious work, your blog also enables you to conserve your energy. It also encourages you to capture ‘fringe-thoughts’: various ideas which may be byproducts of everyday life, snatches of conversation overheard in the s

What is going on here? (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) Raw Thought by Aaron Swartz What is going on here? In his 1959 classic, The Sociological Imagination , the great sociologist C. Wright Mills told students of the discipline: As a social scientist, you have to … capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman. But how can you do this? One answer is: you must set up a blog… In such a blog … there is joined personal experience and professional a

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