I always check for proof of good synthesis when reading yet another Second Brain guide.
Yes, yes, you can tell me how you’ve set up the perfect notetaking workflow, but can you show me how it’s helped you?
I want proof of work, dammit.
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(To be clear, has ample proof of synthesis — read anything by him about the Toyota Production System, for instance.)
And so if I check your output and see no proof of more-than-surface-level synthesis/thinking, it’s likely you don’t have much to offer me.
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This tweet mostly brought to you by the fact that I have an implicit bar for comparison — my own writing.
To take a random example, commoncog.com/blog/learning- was the result of a year of thinking, and draws from > 30 different sources.
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One of the things I struggle with is the fact that the best synthesisers I know … connect their thoughts … in their heads.
Myself included.
The question isn’t ‘can a better notetaking workflow help us think better’, but ‘can a better workflow augment what we already do.’
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🙏🙏 also Tom’s ep on today was excellent. Hope you and Jim can pair up for a chat soon as well.
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I saw! I haven't listened to it yet but I'm looking forward to the episode!