collecting/ gathering
- We have become archivists of the self, I thought, curators of a life half-lived. Each countless photograph of a wonder, of dinner, of a view, of our children, of the utter banality of our everyday lives, was not a memento, a way of remembering the things we did, but instead evidence of the poverty of our engagement with the present moment.
from All Hail the Cloud by M. E. Rothwell
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- Sammelband: A set of disparate texts, separately printed and later gathered in a single binding
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Data collection is inherently creative. Depending on the data you choose to collect from the world, you can begin to see the world from a different perspective. Being a data collector means observing the world with curiosity.
from Do Interesting – Notice. Collect. Share by Russell Davies
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how (& why) to start a commonplace book
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Keeping a Commonplace Book: Why & How
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- Before you build a second brain, you must feel things in your gut. Without this connection to your innermost self, your note-taking system will become a digital junkyard. You’ll capture cool ideas, tweets and articles. You may even build a fancy knowledge graph in Roam. But if you don’t have gut feelings about what’s worth keeping, you’ll confuse h... See more
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Gathering is the disciplined act of collecting stories and ideas while taking notes of why they are interesting.
from Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future (Non-Obvious Trends Series) by Rohit Bhargava
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