I have a horrible feeling that learning a whole bunch of stuff about Personal Knowledge Management and getting nerdy about tools and workflows has made me rather less effective at managing my personal knowledge
The stuff I have written/made that people have liked the most is stuff that came from my own life experience, not from anything that I remixed from content in my 'second brain'.
Make of that what you will.
like, now there's always this meta cognition when I'm reading
"oh you should be taking notes"
yeah but I don't want to take notes
"okay better not read then or I'll waste my time"
I once started reading a book so dense with insight that I was taking photos of every page, and I stopped reading it because I felt obliged to read it “properly” while taking notes. 20 pages in it was one of the greatest books I’ve read. Have not picked it up in since June
Resonance peak. Trick is to then find something about the author to dislike so you resonate less.
Letting a book pwn you that much is religion. Gotta find a way to tame it.
Hahahahahahaha that's dope
Do you leave unlikeable crumbs so people will resonate less with you, or is that something your readers have to find themselves
For a certain kind of book I can see needing this defense mechanism, but I don’t think this advice is universally necessary!
E.g., a history book that feels like this is not really about the author except as a crystalizer of a point of view