Nick Milo - Jab like a boxer, educate like a benevolent king, MoC that thought

“Extracting” Nick Milo from the crowd of enthusiastic fellow-PKMers and into the podcast ring for an interview was one of the most challenging tasks for me on the second day of the summit. Of course, as you’re about to hear, it was absolutely worth it.

I’m intimately acquainted with his work, but the kind of insights I was after were always missing. Therefore, when the opportunity presented itself to get those titbits first-hand, I couldn’t forego it.

Although this was already the fourth (and the last) recording of this edition, my interviewing skills were at their absolute worst. Luckily, Nick is a seasoned speaker who clarifies his thoughts (and thus his expression) for a living. And just like that, the interview was saved. Not only that, but more doors were opening up as this friendly coffee chat progressed. I wanted to lift the curtain ever so slightly for you and me to see beyond the perfectly packaged visual identity of Linking Your Thinking. I believe this episode drives the point home.

You’ll hear about things like Nick’s boxing business, social checks, shitty books, the importance of authenticity in his and others’ work, friendship with Anne-Laure Le Cunff and Tiago Forte, and the extended note-taker archetyping, which may go beyond what you’ve heard about them so far.

In the third part of the conversation, Nick generously lets us in on the behind-the-scenes of the making of his upcoming book. There’s a lot to unpack there, so I jumped on the opportunity to find out more. I’ll certainly purchase a copy once it’s out to share my opinion and thoughts with you as I always do. In the meantime, you already get a juicy teaser.

So, as always, I hope this episode will be an hour well spent. If you’re a serious PKMer, Nick Milo’s name and work have undoubtedly popped on your radar on multiple occasions. I couldn’t thank him enough for sharing his valuable time and insights with all of us through The Mechanics of Knowledge Management.

Happy listening. And don’t forget to…

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