the lie at the core of pkm
no system will save you from the hard work of sitting with the unknown
by Alex Dobrenko and · updated 3mo ago
the lie at the core of pkm
- People have this aspirational idea of building a vast, oppressively colossal, deeply interlinked knowledge graph to the point that it almost mirrors every discrete concept and memory in their brain. And I get the appeal of maximalism. But they’re counting on the wrong side of the ledger. Every node in your knowledge graph is a debt . Every link dou... See more
from Unbundling Tools for Thought by Fernando Borretti
Andreas Vlach added 5mo ago
Alex Dobrenko added 5mo ago
- "If you feel resistance before you begin, it's usually procrastination and you need to get started.
If you feel resistance after you begin, it's usually feedback and you need to make adjustments."from 3-2-1: On discarding old commitments, handling disappointments, and how to go from vision to reality
Alex Dobrenko added 5mo ago
- But Feynman’s brilliance was not solely due to his natural cognitive abilities. He relied on a method : a simple technique for seeing the world through the lens of open-ended questions, which he called his “favorite problems.”
from 12 Favorite Problems: How to Spark Genius With the Power of Open Questions by Tiago Forte
Alex Dobrenko added 5mo ago
- I am going to make the argument that the predominant form of the social web — that amalgam of blogging, Twitter, Facebook, forums, Reddit, Instagram — is an impoverished model for learning and research and that our survival as a species depends on us getting past the sweet, salty fat of “the web as conversation” and on to something more timeless, i... See more
from The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral by Mike Caufield
Alex Dobrenko added 6mo ago
- The problem is, as achievement-subjects, not only do we burn ourselves out, but the meaning and value of our lives is always deferred. Once we have our dream job, the perfect home, a perfectly optimised life – once we are productive enough, efficient enough, successful enough – only then will we arrive at meaning. But just like the fruit that elude... See more
from The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play by Alec Stubbs
Alex Dobrenko added 6mo ago
It took him forty years to formulate, but in the 1960s, Richardson finally found a model for this uncertainty; a paradox that neatly summarises the existential problem of computational thinking. While working on the ‘Statistics of Deadly Quarrels’, an early attempt at the scientific analysis of conflict, he set out to find a correlation between the
... See morefrom New Dark Age by James Bridle
Andreas Vlach added 6mo ago
you can't just collect information to feel creatively and
intellectually alive you need to build a relationship with your gut you need to understand what is worth keeping what is my intention what what do I want to get out of this
from How I Build My Personal Knowledge Library W Sari Azout by Sublime
Andreas Vlach added 6mo ago
- This is the messy backyard with forking paths. I plant cool stuff here without worrying about organizing it.
from Jake Weber's Website
Alex Dobrenko added 6mo ago
now this right here I like ! the chaos. “without worrying about it”