Process
Archives As Anchors
Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills that demand time, patience, and a willingness to look beyond the surface.
Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills that demand time, patience, and a willingness to look beyond the surface.
Patricia Hurducaș • Archives: Anchors For Attention
The Noetic Spiral works the same way with our creative process. It moves through four distinct but flowing phases:
First comes Gathering – the active consumption of ideas, experiences, and information. It's the reading, the listening, the observing. But unlike our usual content binge, it's intentional and purposeful. Think of it as carefully... See more
First comes Gathering – the active consumption of ideas, experiences, and information. It's the reading, the listening, the observing. But unlike our usual content binge, it's intentional and purposeful. Think of it as carefully... See more
Zoe Scaman • The Noetic Spiral
Nice description of the creative process
The beauty of the rabbit hole, and the warren you create by falling down it, is how it activates your curiosity to generate new, reflective pockets of information and knowledge. And the better you become at “finding,” the more portals emerge, and the farther you get from a complete sense of having found. The state of curiosity is one of abundance:... See more
Syllabus • How to Fall Down a Rabbit Hole
“[upload PDF] Transform this PDF into a professor-style whiteboard image, include diagrams, arrows, boxes, and short captions that explain the core ideas visually. Use color highlights to make concepts easy to follow.”
As the tools evolve, the metaphors we use to understand them must also be updated. Herndon and Dryhurst describe this next phase as the move from sampling to spawning. Sampling was the logic of the 20th century. You took a slice of a record—a James Brown breakbeat, a horn stab from a jazz LP—and folded it into a new track. It was transformative,... See more
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
Whenever you’re debating what to do, explicitly ask yourself “what do I predict will happen if I choose option A?” and try to unroll the trajectory. Even if you think you’re already intuitively predicting the results of your choices, I’ve found it helps surprisingly much to be explicit—one of my manager role models asks me this (“what do you think... See more
benkuhn.net • Impact, Agency, and Taste
Every morning, before the rush of emails, meetings, and to-do lists, I sit quietly and think slowly (with thanks to Daniel Kahneman). It’s not always easy—my mind often races ahead (with thanks to my ADD)—but I've found that even brief moments of mindfulness help me prepare for a day of writing. This necessary pause helps me notice my thoughts... See more
Prompting with Mindfulness: How My Rhetorical Prompting Method Encourages Deeper Thinking
The ingredients of ‘good’ curation
I think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextualizing:
I think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextualizing:
- Preservation: Caring for, reviving or resurfacing things that might otherwise be lost or forgotten in archives or streams.
- Connection: Inspiring moments of surprise –, “I didn’t think of