This could be very hands-on (feedback from expert), socially distributed (scaffolded peer-feedback), asynchronous (worked examples, first try yourself then see example of good and bad note), and using AI/NLP to give you automated feedback.
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It‘s gonna be a shared Roam for each cohort and a forum to discuss. Collecting the exercise syllabus right now.
But Shhhhhh 🤫 Gotta work on my papers first
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Would love to discuss, have lot's of ideas around this.
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Took a bunch of notes while listening to a podcast with Andy Matuschak and Erik Torenberg recently
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Hi, . Have you done any thinking about explicit (or implicit) teaching of note taking strategies or knowledge work? See my notes in the thread ^^
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Yes. But I concluded that the underlying ideas are too nascent, and that I want to develop them much more before spending time spreading them.
May run workshops/classes in the meantime, but the point will be to help me understand, not to teach.
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To put it another way: I’ll want to work on spreading a given computer-supported thinking idea once I feel it's clearly enabled important work on the margin. Before then, feels too navel-gaze-y / “lifehacker”-y. Better to focus on honing and testing the ideas themselves.
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I’m extremely concerned about falling into this trap:
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I have extensive notes on my experiments here: notes.andymatuschak.org/z3SjnvsB5aR2dd
This isn’t an edited essay—the ideas aren’t developed enough—but feel free to browse.
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I certainly agree with both those points!
I write short, focused notes (typically < 200 words)—that’s part of the practice—but navigating will feel meandering. They’re not written to be easy for you to read; they’re what you get before I’ve written an essay, rather than nothing!
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These are fun to read, thanks for sharing. I was getting some serious Sönke Ahrens vibes from the Evergreen Notes and then I realized that was one of the references 😄