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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
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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"
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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
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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
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