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People don’t lie to you about who they are – they lie to themselves in your presence
Lisa Feldman Barrett • Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain | Lex Fridman Podcast #140
Note-taking apps, simply put, are our best option for “bending” productivity to the ebb and flow of our days, and for managing the work-in-process inventory of ideas that represents our main asset as knowledge workers.
Tiago Forte • Bending the Curves of Productivity
Humans are bad at coming up with search queries. Humans are good at incrementally narrowing down options with a series of filters, and pointing where they want to go next. This seems obvious, but we keep building interfaces for finding information that look more like Google Search and less like a map.
All information tools have to give users some... See more
All information tools have to give users some... See more
thesephist.com • Navigate, don't search
I’ve been pondering this gap between one-shot and incremental information-finding interfaces in the context of knowledge tools recently. Text search boxes are easy to design and easy to add to apps. But I think their ease on developers may be leading us to ignore potential interface ideas that could let us discover better ideas, faster.
thesephist.com • Navigate, don't search
The actual measures of productivity that might be useful range quite a bit:
- I did enough to not get fired.
- I did enough to get promoted.
- I did enough to get hired by a better firm.
- I solved a problem for a customer who was frustrated.
- I changed the system and now my peers are far more productive.
- I invented something that creates new possibilities and
PW 5: Measuring the right thing
Note taking is building a relationship with a future version of yourself.