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without a permanent reservoir of ideas, you will not be able to develop any major ideas over a longer period of time because you are restricting yourself either to the length of a single project or the capacity of your memory. Exceptional ideas need much more than that. (via)

The amount of information in the world is a progress trap. Too much stuff to read is just as limiting as too little. (via)

It’s easy to focus on “note-taking” because it’s a visible component of an invisible practice: if you see someone insightful writing in their notebook, you might imagine that if you get the right notebook and organize it well, you’ll be insightful too. And of course, taking notes is tangible. It’s relatively easy, and it feels like doing something, even if it’s useless (via)

Build a habit of curation — learn to let go (via)

Without a regular checkup of the things you save, your digital vault will keep growing and growing becoming yet again, overwhelming. (via)

My crime is that of curiosity. (via)

Solving the collection, collation, and reading part of the knowledge management problem is valuable, integrating deeply and making the data available even more so. (via)

In general, people don’t have a clear picture of what a note should be, so it’s not clear when a given note fails to conform to that standard. (via)

the importance of backlinks

orphan notes are scratch

How do language and identity structure what we are capable of seeing and knowing? (via)

The more fulfilling an outlet you find for the fruit of your database, the more motivated you will be to fill it. (via)

You highlight the passages for a reason. (via)

a system for incremental thinking (via)

Some knowledge can only be discovered the hard way. (via)

Solving the collection, collation, and reading part of the knowledge management problem is valuable, integrating deeply and making the data available even more so. (via)

The goal is not to take notes—the goal is to think effectively. (via)

Better questions are “what practices can help me reliably develop insights over time?”, “how can I shepherd my attention effectively?” etc. (via)

what matters is not “computer-support note-taking” but “computer supported thinking.” (via)

Beware: it’s too easy to let others’ schema and ideas dominate your own (via)

there’s less need for brainstorming because those insights have already emerged—and captured in an ongoing fashion—in one’s day-to-day work (via)

realize that having a text at hand does nothing to increase our knowledge (via)

The very fact that there are so many methodologies demonstrates that none are a panacea. (via)

the growth in available information has been exceeded only by the expansion of noise (via)

“Learn by doing” is standard advice, but you can’t do that unless you splash around in the moat for a bit. (via)

If the system isn’t used seriously, the insights will be more like those which a pure theorist could have seen. Those were possible without actually building a system. (via)

durable notes are intentionally expressed in your own words (via)

What brings us to personal growth is usually the idea that something wrong with us yeah, right? But at some point in our life, we we can't orient to the world from that place anymore — it has to be "there's something right with me, these challenges that I'm having are no longer of my lack or my inadequacy, they're actually evidence that I'm learning" (via)

Don't always jump to using existing patterns (via)