Anyone ever try long-term self-summarizing documents on ambiguous things? Like a mind map that you keep adding to over months, with occasional refractors? I don’t mean linearly cumulative things like spreadsheets but things where adding items takes thought
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Share themes and best practices if you do something like this. Looking for alternative paradigms to notebooks where there is no progressive summarization unless you adopt the discipline to do it.
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My old phd/postdoc notes were models of discipline. I’d summarize every working session at the end, do periodic meso-summaries every few weeks, and maintain a running table of contents with 1-line summaries. In a 2020-21 notebook I just finished there’s only dates.
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But this was 1998-2006 when I had like 10x more meta-cognitive executive attention management energy and also maintained a functional GTD. All that’s fallen apart now. My information empire/second brain is now like late stage Trantor. Brink of collapse.
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Without a cumulative meta-process of progressive summarization, notes are basically private shitposting and a cognitive random walk. The 2020-21 (paper) notebook I just finished is like 10% of the review utility as one of my 3-ring binders from say 2002 when I was great at this.
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Here’s a 2008 post I wrote about my “young and energetic” process of the previous decade. No way I can run something like this now. Not enough neocortex left to run the process. First brain withering away.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2008/09/11/how-to-measure-information-work/ …
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I think it’s just regular aging (34y old brain vs 46) but Waldenponders would say Twitter rotted my brain since I joined in 2007
Whatever the cause, gotta build a senior-citizen second brain system.
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@fortelabs publishes his book, I’ll write a derivative ebook called “second brains for senior citizens sliding into senility” Subtitle: how to run your life on 10,000 prefrontal cortex neurons or less2 replies 0 retweets 21 likesShow this thread
still lusting after the searchable & renormalizable infinite canvas i’ve been intending to build. for years now (need to amp up my personal apm, though i’ve made some recent improvements).
@kiserene swears by @Obsdmd
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