Renee De Four
@reneedefour
Renee De Four
personal corpus—our collection of information, thoughts, ideas and organised works.
Christopher Roosen • Time and Entropy Waits For No One, So Build Your Own Corpus Proprius, Your Personal Information Network — Christopher Roosen
It’s not that sexy new PM tool. That’s a shiny object, distracting you from the real problem.
It starts with process and people, and you support that with tools. The simpler, the better.
It starts with process and people, and you support that with tools. The simpler, the better.
The more discovery calls I have with potential clients as a Notion Consultant, the more I realise how paramount this is.
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
Emily Temple • “Write a Sentence as Clean as a Bone” And Other Advice from James Baldwin
It feels like a thorn in your side to have put in place something for the expectations of others versus for the purpose of being in alignment, staying in alignment, growing in alignment with your higher self
Michelle Rohr • Why I'm Currently Not Delegating in My Business — Secret O.W.L. Society | Planners, Passive Income, and Personal Growth
🌀 Agnes Martin - My Rabbit Hole of Exploration
Here is the answer to the question I asked in the first post. Agnes Martin discovered that painting was all she needed to be fulfilled in this life. I wonder at what age in life did she discover this? Was it an innate knowing or did she struggle?
I envy people like this who know what their “thing” is. I’m 30 years old and it frustrates me deeply that I don’t have a strong affiliation with one thing. Whether that’s writing, or reading, painting or playing an instrument. I’m starting to wonder if I need to try new things?
What I do enjoy - building workflows with digital tools, solving problems by creating systems does not feel like an artistic thing!
I can build and perfect a Notion or Tana workflow for hours until a solution is found but something feels like it’s missing. Maybe it’s because it’s not tangible like painting?
I don’t know but I think I need to pick up pottery - maybe that will be my thing.
Update 1/4/25 9:15 pm - This quote also reminds me of Hirayama from Perfect Days. He too discovered something far more precious than material accumulation.
Corpus is a collection, group, or body of writings. A collection of works on a single topic, or by a single author.
I propose a Corpus Proprius is the aggregation of all the things we know, things we wrote about, ideas we had, observations we observed.
Everything.
I propose a Corpus Proprius is the aggregation of all the things we know, things we wrote about, ideas we had, observations we observed.
Everything.
Christopher Roosen • Time and Entropy Waits For No One, So Build Your Own Corpus Proprius, Your Personal Information Network — Christopher Roosen
“In a world where you are constantly asked to be ‘committed,’ it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.”
~ Tom Hodgkinson
~ Tom Hodgkinson