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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I call this idea “workshop vs library” - szymonkaliski.com/notes/workshop - basically different language is used when thinking by writing vs when communicating by writing
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Do you ever find you need to change or refactor a bunch of your notes when your beliefs on some topic changes?
eg. if you change your "Evergreen notes" note based on significant updates to your beliefs about them, that could affect a bunch of other notes which reference it
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Yes, fairly frequently. That’s a sign of important progress!
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