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E21 Josh Duffney: When Zettelkasten Notetaking In Obsidian Fails...
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The Collector's Fallacy and the Value of Trapped Knowledge
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The insight emphasizes the Collector's Fallacy, where individuals aim to abstract and collect every piece of knowledge in an attempt to create a mystical knowledge base. While this approach may work well in academia, it may not be as effective in project-focused disciplines. The speaker learned that it is acceptable to have knowledge trapped in a book without transferring it to a knowledge base. By utilizing the Feynman technique, creating something of their own based on the knowledge from the book was a more effective method than converting it into permanent notes. This approach led to the realization that organizing and linking extensive notes is not always worth the time invested, and creating original content like podcasts, blog posts, or monologues based on the trapped knowledge can be more beneficial.
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