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All things around building and improving your personal knowledge management.
@gautreaux
#mentalmodels #knowledge #productivity #habits #creativity
#648: James Clear, Atomic Habits — Simple Strategies for Building (and Breaking) Habits, Questions for Personal Mastery and Growth, Tactics for Writing and Launching a Mega-Bestseller, Finding Leverage, and More

Ideas Are Downstream from Information Flows

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • The tool that is most important is the quality of the information flow that is created.
  • It is important to find sources of information that are high signal and relevant to the topic being discussed.
  • It is important to spend time curating the information that is consumed in order to get the most value out of it.
@jeffbrown
Making the argument for keeping a “brain diary” or utilizing a PKM system for starting your day on a strong, encouraging, and optimistic note.
How to Stop Comparing Yourself So You Can Be at Peace w/ Matthew Hussey

A Daily Morning PKM Ritual

2min
AI Key Takeaways
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@jeffbrown
Great tip for making use of knowledge learned from books.
Cal Newport: Lifestyle Design, Slow Productivity and Contrarian Writing

The Corner Marking Method for Efficient Book Note-taking

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@nateterrence
#technology #brain #knowledge #memory
From Second Brain to Collective

The Power of the Digitally Extended Mind

3min
AI Key Takeaways
  • The extended mind thesis, which suggests that the mind is extended beyond the body, is incorrect, but has since been proven correct due to advances in technology.
  • When people lose a spouse or close friend, they may feel like they have lost a part of their brain, as their brain has become reliant on that person.
@sam
Zsolt Olah - Senior Learning Technologist at Amazon

The Problem With Knowledge Capture

3min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Experts may skip critical steps when sharing their knowledge without proper context
  • Capturing and sharing complete knowledge requires specialized methods and expertise
  • Going backwards when building a course can help ensure all necessary information is included
@evilsizor
#writing #systems #pkm #creativity #technology #productivity
Ep. 243: In The Weeds!

Notebook Fallacy: Too much energy organizing ideas, too little extracting value from them

1min
AI Key Takeaways
@jeffbrown
Worrying about category folder or topic tag at the moment of capture isn’t sustainable.
Building a Second Brain

When organizing a note ask: Where will I need this next?

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • It is not valuable to have dozens or hundreds of quotes in one giant repository
  • At the moment of organizing a note with a quote, ask oneself a single question to categorize it
  • Asking oneself multiple questions to categorize notes is not sustainable over the long term
@jeffbrown
Author Richard Shotton (The Illusion of Choice) shares his thoughts on capturing ideas.
483: The Illusion of Choice with Richard Shotton

If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking…

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@mart
TIP580: Clear Thinking w/ Shane Parrish

Learning Loop: Experience, Reflect, Abstract, Action. If You Consume Others’ Abstractions You Have Illusion Knowledge

1min
AI Key Takeaways
@jeffbrown
Your methods for capturing knowledge don’t have to be digital.
480: The Case for Good Jobs with Zeynep Ton

Methods for Retaining Knowledge from an MIT Professor

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@jeffbrown
Myth: A Second Brain means tediously overhauling and restructuring my entire digital life

What It Feels Like To Have A Second Brain?

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@jeffbrown
Don’t rely on just your most recent ideas and insights.
Building a Second Brain

The Second Brain As An Antidote To Novelty Bias

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Humans have a novelty bias which relies on recent information when making decisions
  • A second brain system can counter novelty bias and provide ideas from various time periods
  • Working with digital notes from the past is just as useful as working with notes from the present
@jeffbrown
Author David Burkus and show host Jeff Brown discuss some of their favorite techniques for capturing information.
484: The Surprising Science of High-Performing Teams with David Burkus

Strategies for Saving and Finding Valuable Information

6min
AI Key Takeaways
@jeffbrown
There are not only future benefits but health benefits to writing things down.
Building a Second Brain

The Benefits of Writing Things Down

1min
AI Key Takeaways
@rafaelroberto
Linking Your Thinking and Note-Making with Nick Milo

How to Start Building a Knowledge Management System

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@jeffbrown
Author James McKenna prefers to keep his notes close to the source from which they originate.
469: Optimizing Learning and Development in the Workplace with James McKenna

Problem Solving: Whiteboards, Notebooks, and Walks

4min
AI Key Takeaways
  • The speaker teaches a cohort called Notemaking Mastery that helps knowledge workers with personal knowledge management and organizing their ideas.
  • The cohort teaches importance of keeping everything in one place, connecting new ideas to existing ones, synthesizing and distilling down information and allowing own insights to interact with what they're learning.
  • The speaker asks the interviewee about their practices for making sure they internalize information and put it to use, given their work and content consumption habits.
@jeffbrown
Skip the step of making your notes scannable at your own peril.
Building a Second Brain

The Importance of Making Your Notes “Glance-able”

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Highlighting is a universal language for distilling important points.
  • Applying highlighting to digital notes can save time and improve productivity.
  • Glanceable highlights are a good rule of thumb for efficient note-taking.
@lunasprach
A True Second Brain

The next chapter of second brain tools: feeding you what you didn’t know you already knew

3min
AI Key Takeaways
@bobbyhiddn
Thought this was useful in regards to the hoarding of knowledge. I digest the information I’ve written a week or so after I wrote it down.
Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative

How to be a Writer

50sec
AI Key Takeaways
  • One should write as much as possible and not look back at their work, in order to improve their writing skills as a reader.
  • It is important to approach writing as a reader in order to be able to assess one's work more easily.
@am
Tiago Forte // Building a Second Brain in Practice + Sustained Behavior Change

What to do with notes in a "Second Brain" after you capture them

6min
AI Key Takeaways
  • The ap needs to know where to put things when they come in, which is called the inbox.
  • The ap can also put things in a different place, called the rimbox.