Jeffrey Webber

Experimenting with personal knowledge development tools.

YouTube & Medium (

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It's been a while since I've created content, but I've been quietly refining my understanding of knowledge development without the pressure of producing. I'm ready to start sharing again.

Diving back in with the fundamental tool of highlighting!

https://t.co/tJg8KT0BgZ

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Focus on producing something timeless rather than timely.

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Trying to produce only useful thoughts (notes) when you write is the greatest barrier to consistently thinking externally.

Instead of creating a system where bad notes must be discarded, build one where useful notes must be identified.

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@nateliason No Contest: The Case Against Competition by Alfie Kohn

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Everything has its season in your life, and everything is impermanent.

Trying to hold on to something irrationally often causes you to act in ways that speed you toward its demise.

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I choose to align myself with Fate in all things.

But that doesn't mean I'll stop whispering in her ear along the way.

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Have we forgotten about our most important tool for thought?

https://t.co/dFn2QP4VfB

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No matter what applications are in our Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) stack, our brains will always be our primary Tool for Thought.

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Writing notes often supports divergent thinking, but writing code can facilitate convergence.

Useful for representing concepts?

Rewards:
consequences = punish

def punish(exp = expectation):
if reward(qty, freq) < exp(qty, freq):
return punishment

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@mkobach It's pretty hard to improve upon the advice from Kipling in "If."

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A beautiful life does not come about by accident but still allows for accidents to happen.

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Enlightenment: Searching for the shadowed strings that stir our souls.

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Personal Knowledge Management systems are not products; they're thinking tools.

Products are polished; Tools are messy.

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AI in personal knowledge management doesn't seem to be knowledge development but rather just another form of information consumption.

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@AliAbdaal Pen & 4x6 Index Cards

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@TansyBradshaw Hey Tansy, I ran into a similar problem as well with the auto sorting. I've been quiet on the content front lately as I've been redesigning and working with my knowledge development system. I no longer use logseq as part of my process, so I don't have a workaround for you.

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No book provides answers if you aren't first asking questions.

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You're the foundation of any productivity system, not the other way round.

So if you don't work on yourself first, the system will fail, no matter which one you choose.

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Check out how my analog reference notes have evolved!

https://t.co/ilZUnTKxld

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Here's an example of how I immortalized a unique insight using my External Mind.

https://t.co/gwlva5aRHy