The Athenaeum is a collaborative knowledge management effort by Noah and Jacob Pederson. It contains shared knowledge, links, and other sources. Some information will be formatted or otherwise distilled. Others will simply be a collection of resources. ## 🏛️ What is an "Athenaeum?" Taken from ancient Greece, Athenaeums were institutions or places of literary and scientific learning. In the modern day it may refer to libraries, museums, or other cultural centers that focus on literature and the arts. > **A place for gathering and sharing *knowledge.*** # 🌲Structure The structure consists of a mix of categorized, hierarchical notes that follow a traditional wiki structure. However, sometimes it's not *worth* organizing notes into this structure. For a more fluid knowledge base, we employ [[Zettelkasten]]-style note-taking for things that don't fit nicely into main topics of interest. # 🌱 Purpose This project is started as an experiment to see how collaborative note-taking in public can be approached. When you're writing for someone else explicitly, it helps with composing more complete and coherent information. # 🗿 Logo The logo for this is an AI generated pencil sketch that is largely based on [*David* by Michelangelo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)). # 📓 Journals Journals are added on occasion and may contain logs of changes or other linear logging style notes. An effort to annotate who is responsible for a log is made, but often times ignored.