# Welcome to sparksNotes! **Here you will find:** * My notes from learning a wide variety of subjects and skills * Technical documentation from both my professional life and personal interests * My research notes and citations for my content creation outlets and academic interests * Personal projects as I work on them And (probably) _much more_! If you have any questions or just wanna talk to me about something, feel free to email me at: [email protected] ***OR*** contact me on [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/justcallmesparks.bsky.social) (_cough cough_ [[Bluesky Vs Twitter]]) This site is created using the file-based routing of [Obsidian Publish](https://obsidian.md/publish), and made up of markdown files from one of my Obsidian vaults. If you are interested in my process of building a system of self-education, productivity, and content management, check out the page on [[My Obsidian Setup]]. This system, considered outside the confines of an Obsidian environment, is one I plan to build into my own custom personal knowledge management (PKM) application in the future. My thoughts on that are currently cataloged here: [[Building the omniSpark]] [**Task Index**]([[+ Task Index]]) # Armchair Authorities **Armchair Authorities** (*AA*) is a brand I came up with when trying to think of a name that could encompass _all_ of my interests, my academic background, and anything else I might want to write about and record a video over. Additionally, it needed to provide enough flexibility in the name that it could be extended across whatever domains I wanted, while still providing a bit of "_a vibe_" for what a viewer/reader could expect upon encountering something of ours. **Armchair Authorities** is primarily me, (Matthew Sparks) baby. Though my partner, **Indira**, is becoming increasingly involved as the wheels start to turn for our content creation. Indira is astonishingly sharp and intelligent; with an academic background in philosophy, an unwavering commitment to the truth, and an inspiring capacity for empathy for people of all kinds and backgrounds--she's basically *my not-so-secret* weapon. # Political Mythology The politics-focused branch of **AA** is currently called **Political Mythology**. I hope to have a more complete and polished site just for politics under that domain sometime in the future (as well as the YouTube content I am working on now). A content map of the current, _in-progress_ political content can be found here: [[+ Political Mythology]] # Most Recent Content in Progress [[Bluesky Vs Twitter]] [[My Political Background]] [[The Joe Rogan of the Left]] [[Building the omniSpark]]