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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it will be interesting on who or how this proof of synthesis is verifiable like what are the benchmarks for such a framework. like can it be made measurable for existing ones like basb or even modern zettelkasten implementations
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The limiting factor is getting better at 'sitting with the cloud', 'noticing interesting threads in your inputs', and 'developing taste for good organising principles'.
You think better by learning to think better, not by making better notes as a substitute for thinking.
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you are right that the could isn't the best place to think in but that position of taking notes and assembling a slip box is only one part of the problem zettelkasten tried to solve. luhmann built the exercise as a model to his grander theory of society
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the grand theory bit, everyone leaves behind and focuses on productivity which i think is where the problem lies. unless there is an extended mandate the notes perform, just a slip box doesn't go anywhere. skills to produce/ make some with notes is necessary
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