The death of thinking

For some reason, when we moved our workflows into the digital realm, we began to lose respect for this way of taking notes, of simply adding new information to an ever-growing log of our thoughts. Instead, we built tools that encourage us to keep only the most current version of reality.

thesephist.com • Incremental Note-Taking | thesephist.com

I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea.... See more

fs.blog • How to Think: The Skill You've Never Been Taught - Farnam Street

But it’s pretty obvious, really, that busy is not the ultimate metric here. It’s not the end game. After all, sheer quantity of work is not the aim. Rather, I’m searching for depth. And originality. [...]

What I’m questing after, instead, is an idea with power. That new framework that helps us see a relationship we’d previously missed. The essay

The government knows AGI is coming ⊗ AI’s productivity paradox ⊗ Thinking time

“Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking”

Lots of people write about solutions to the problem that Note-writing practices are generally ineffective. The vast majority of that writing fixates on a myopic, “lifehacking”-type frame, focused on answering questions like: “how should I organize my notes?”, “what kind of... See more

Andy • §Note-writing systems

In both, many people value the output (product) more highly than the process of getting to the output. That’s a mistake. Often, the process has as much (and in the case of PKM, more) value than the final product. Let’s examine how this applies to each discipline.

The point of personal knowledge management isn’t capturing and managing information;... See more

Reconsidering the Role of AI: Valuing Process Over Output

The Death of Thinking in the Age of Perfect Systems

We are drowning in our own intelligence.

Never before has humanity had such access to information, such sophisticated tools for organizing knowledge, such seamless ways to capture and retrieve every fragment of thought. Yet something has gone terribly wrong. Despite having the cognitive