You need to be coining new words
- Carl Jung: "Introversion", "extroversion," "archetypes"
- Nietzsche: "Slave morality"
- Darwin: "Survival of the fittest"
Interesting new labels will make your ideas stickier and 10x likelier to be passed on
Jash Dholanix.comYou need to be coining new words - Carl Jung: "Introversion", "extroversion," "archetypes" - Nietzsche: "Slave morality" - Darwin: "Survival of the fittest" Interesting new labels will make your ideas stickier and 10x likelier to be passed on
The name of your idea is just as important as the argument behind it.
When we collapse our thinking into a phrase, meme or name that’s easy to pass on, we give our ideas the best possible chance to spread. The best names feel like inevitable
additions to our collective vocabulary (“1000 True Fans”, “Radical Candor” even “web3”). They spark interest... See more
When we collapse our thinking into a phrase, meme or name that’s easy to pass on, we give our ideas the best possible chance to spread. The best names feel like inevitable
additions to our collective vocabulary (“1000 True Fans”, “Radical Candor” even “web3”). They spark interest... See more
Tell the internet a story
And since you were the one who invented the language, you become the trusted authority to educate them on the definition of that new language—and subsequently, that new category.
Eddie Yoon • Snow Leopard
Assigning keywords is much more than just a bureaucratic act. It is a crucial part of the thinking process, which often leads to a deeper elaboration of the note itself and the connection to other notes.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
It is such an important skill to see differences between seemingly similar concepts, or connections between seemingly different ideas. This even used to be the meaning of the word “new.” “Novus,” in Latin, used to mean “different,” “unusual,” not so much “genuinely new” in the meaning of “unheard” (Luhmann, 2005, 210).
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
DEVONthink features a clever algorithm that detects subtle semantic connections between distinct passages of text. These tools are smart enough to get around the classic search-engine failing of excessive specificity: searching for “dog” and missing all the articles that only have the word “canine” in them.