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by creative blogs: I mean ones where you can customize specific article pages easily, to change the styling, add interactive demos, etc..

Examples:

1. this Reuters article https://www.reuters.com/graphics/TENNIS- WIMBLEDON/GRAPHIC/lbvggkzjmvq/

2. anything by Bartosz Ciechanowski

For my blog (yusuf.fyi) I used to MDX to do this, but I have since moved on from the react ecosystem and want something lower level. especially since my site got vendor-locked in an old astrojs version and I am struggling to upgrade it.

So I've been trying to actually take notes with obsidian and I can't figure out how. let's say I am a newcomer to astronomy and I begin to look into the topic through popscience videos or short articles, every time I come across a new thing to learn I make a note as such:

    The zenith is the center of the night sky and it is used for orienting.. so on and so forth

Maybe even throw in a couple of links to other notes for good mesure.

As I assemble more and more info, what differentiates my vault from a local-copy of wikipedia? I mean sure it's not a word for word copy ( I always try to use my own words as much as possible) but is it any better?

And if being similar to wikipedia isn't a problem, then what constitutes as learning? having a copy of wikipedia on-hand definitely is not learning. so do I take a look at these notes every couple of days and call it a day, or take a test on the subject as if it was a college course?

This happens for me with other subjects too, for example a couple of weeks ago I wanted to get really knowledgable about greek mythology so I picked up mythos by Stephan Fry (great book btw) and again I was unsure about how to take notes on it.

my intuition said to briefly explain in the form of short bullet points the plot point of each sub story in the book as well as detailing the relationships between different gods mentioned in the book. I guess that's better that not taking notes at all, but is my written relationship guide really better then the 10s of graphical ones available online?

I used to know how to take notes for school because I got used to the structure of exams in different subjects thanks to the decade+ being a student but when it comes to free-form learning where there isn't a test or any tangible way to mesure progress I lose sight of how to take notes/learn

As anyone else on here, i love computers and whenever I had to choose something to work on (hobby-wise) I always chose something that has to do with computers.

This summer I'm going to college and I am considering a bacholar in Business Administration.

Aside from a couple of math/CS courses, the curriculum has many required business related as you'd expect like: Business Intelligence, Micro & Macro economics, Finance, marketing, etc..

This goes against any of my interests as explained but I am considering it mainly because it's schedule is one of the lightest leaving me a lot of time to work on side projects on my own

My question is: would a "hacker" in the HN sense enjoy studying these courses (which to me seem to involve a lot of rigourous memorization, something that I don't like) to at least pass them or would I simply get burned out, moreover is it wise to get a degree in business/finance with CS as just a hobby in this AI-powered age?