Dan Stephens

Every Book Cited on This Site: The Shelf

Sortable, and honest about which of these I have read and which I only know at working distance.

Every work cited on this site, and the state of my reading in each one.

The method behind these essays refuses to blur what has been read with what is merely known about. The same rule binds me here. There are three states.

  • Read. I have read the work itself, in whole.
  • Read as reference. I have read parts of it closely and used them, and I have not read the whole. The parts I leaned on are real reading. The rest of the book is not mine to speak for.
  • Working distance. I know it by excerpt, summary, secondary discussion, or reputation. It is here as a pointer for your reading, never as a work I claim to have digested.

A work changes state when I have read it, not when an essay leans on it harder. Sort the table by any column, or filter it to one state at a time.

AuthorWorkYearRead stateCited in
Ahrens, SönkeHow to Take Smart Notes
A popular account of Luhmann’s note method
2017Working distanceThe Presuppositional LLM Wiki, as further reading
AugustineOn Christian Teaching (De doctrina Christiana), Book II, chapter 40
On the Christian use of learning found outside the church
c. 397Working distanceThe Presuppositional LLM Wiki
Karpathy, AndrejLLM wiki sketch
A public note proposing a plain text wiki that a language model keeps
n.d.Working distanceThe Presuppositional LLM Wiki
Luhmann, Niklas“Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen” (“Communicating with Slip Boxes”)
Luhmann’s own account of his slip box
1981Working distanceThe Presuppositional LLM Wiki
Mohler, R. Albert“A Call for Theological Triage and Christian Maturity”
The essay that named theological triage
2005ReadThe Presuppositional LLM Wiki
Ohno, TaiichiToyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production (Productivity Press)
Just in time manufacturing, set out by the man who built it
1988Working distanceThe Presuppositional LLM Wiki
Ortlund, GavinFinding the Right Hills to Die On: The Case for Theological Triage (Crossway)
Theological triage at book length
2020ReadThe Presuppositional LLM Wiki
Van Til, CorneliusThe Defense of the Faith (P&R)
The presuppositional case in apologetics
1955Working distanceThe Presuppositional LLM Wiki

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