You Can’t Always Invent
If we have a system to capture ideas when and where they come to our attention we prepare the building blocks for our next piece.
Why is it interesting?
Hoarding information is different from building up knowledge. When we fall prey to information overload, we suffer from the failure of our attention filter.
More Reading, Then Writing
Shall I do “a year of draft writing”?
Fighting the blank page with networked notes
all sounds good. Let’s see what practicing it will look like.
Annotating Podcasts and Connecting Contextually
I would call that a partial success. I am looking to improve this knowledge capturing workflow because I like how it started, I don’t like how it ends.
The Knowledge Creations Process
Can we brand a thinking process? Think about a toy brick, a 2-by-4 piece. It’s standard, created with high precision to respects specific dimensions, shapes and feature. Now think about what you can do with that piece. Within its constrained shape it offers infinite combinatorial possibilities with multiple instances of itself. Now take a set […]
Talking to my future self about my knowledge
Why didn’t I start earlier?
Checklists to Pursue Learning Goals
These are checklists to make my learning workflow tangible.
Note-Taking Liberates You from Your Moods
Note-taking allows you to separate your current mood from the idea you want to capture.
Contextual Paraphrasing Must Be Done Early
Stop, make an effort to interpret what caught your attention, and rewrite it with your words into notes to add to your archive.