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How to think better
6 min · · Learn how to think better with a guide on decision-making frameworks, cognitive biases, mental models, and tools for thought. · Shared by 654, including Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Antonio Ramos, Evan (he/him), Katja Evertz, Rich, Josh Blaha, fnord, James, Mario Clemente, Ahiesh PVS, Tom Connor, Bernhard Huessy, Gio Tiongson
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A Builder's Guide to Note-Taking
16+ min · · Your brain is a leaky bucket. If you're dedicated to filling it with knowledge, you should be equally dedicated to sealing the leak. Here's how. · Shared by 16, including Evan (he/him), David Garner
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The Seven Sins of Memory
4 min · · “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist,” once said French author Guy de Maupassant. Whether it’s short-term memory allowing us to… · Shared by 262, including Mike Taylor, Evan (he/him), Gabriele
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Unbounded learning: how to unshackle your education
3 min · · While bounded learning is based on a fixed curriculum with specific educational outcomes, unbounded learning embraces the never-ending cycle of personal growth generated by continuous education. It is… · Shared by 249, including Ⓓarío Macchi, Vitor Furtado Silva, Evan (he/him), Vikram, Ceferino Díaz
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My implementation of a reading inbox
1 min · · This note describes the system which implements A reading inbox to capture possibly-useful references.Reading comes in many flavors, and different tools are appropriate for capturing and reading… · Shared by 6, including Evan (he/him)
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2 Types of Knowledge & What They Mean for Knowledge Management
6 min · · Organizations rely on two types of knowledge. Gain a deeper understanding of both types and learn techniques for implementing knowledge management. · Shared by 6, including Evan (he/him)
Tiago Forte
Progressive Summarization: A Practical Technique for Designing Discoverable Notes
12+ min · · Series Navigation: Progressive SummarizationProgressive Summarization II: Examples and Metaphors >> Modern digital tools make it easy to “capture” information from a wide variety of sources. We know… · Shared by 91, including Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Vitor Furtado Silva, Evan (he/him), Ricardo Yasuda, Oscar MacDonald, Gabriele
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The Feynman Learning Technique
20+ min · · If you’re after a way to supercharge your learning and become smarter, the Feynman Technique might just be the best way to learn absolutely anything. Devised by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, it… · Shared by 876, including Evan (he/him), Aamir Raz, Doug Sundheim, Oscar MacDonald, Henneke Duistermaat, Howard Getson, Jason Lauritsen, Jessel Sookha, Bill Gross, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Mark Kaigwa, Hampus Jakobsson, Galen King, maxadorno, Gabriele, Bob Apollo Inflexion-Point FF.ISP 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 🇪🇸, Scott Monty, davidabrock, Clark Quinn, George Waititu
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Backlinking Is Not Very Useful
4 min · · Disclaimer: I talked with Christian about what backlinks are. I don’t mean it as a technical concept like software and web developers would use the term. To me, a backlink is a link that allows you to… · Shared by 12, including maxadorno, Evan (he/him)
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9 useful templates for Roam Research
3 min · · In this article, we explore nine helpful Roam templates you can copy and paste in your database to start using straight away. · Shared by 54, including Anne-Laure Le Cunff, maxadorno, Evan (he/him)
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From note-taking to note-making
3 min · · Note-taking is fast, uses the original author's language, and feels easier. Note-making is slower, more involved, and uses your own language. · Shared by 484, including Vitor Furtado Silva, Gabriele, Esther Schindler, Jessel Sookha, Mark Kaigwa, Jeremy Caplan, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Stephanie A Kowalski, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Evan (he/him)
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How to take notes while reading a book
4 min · · When reading a book, taking notes interrupts our reading flow. There is a fine balance between taking too many notes and taking too few notes. · Shared by 1127, including Memen Isimo, Massimiliano Aroffo, Dayyan Smith, Ricardo Yasuda, Katja Evertz, Antonio Ramos, Vitor Furtado Silva, Andrew Ermogenous, Gabriele, florian bigge, Lynda, rohit, Evan (he/him), maxadorno, Shawn Venasse, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Jesús Torres 👩💻, Stephanie A Kowalski, Marcos, Christian Müller
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The hermeneutic circle: a key to critical reading
3 min · · Hermeneutics deals with interpretation. When we interpret a text, it's not linear: it’s a cycle, which is called the hermeneutic circle. · Shared by 47, including Gabriele, Evan (he/him), maxadorno, Oscar MacDonald, sircharlsxavier, Essaadi
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Connected Papers: a visual tool for academic research
3 min · · I’m obsessed with thinking in maps: discovering and creating connections between ideas, adding nodes to a knowledge graph, finding patterns across distant areas of knowledge. However, the traditional… · Shared by 157, including Evan (he/him), Vikram, maxadorno, Stephan Woodtli, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Tom Connor, Katja Evertz, Casey Smith, Pranav Soni, Fabrizio Bianchi
Tiago Forte
The Ultimate Guide to Summarizing Books: How to Distill Ideas to Accelerate Your Learning
13+ min · · In 2016, I read 57 books. I read like I was running out of time. It felt like an achievement, yet by the end of the year, I could scarcely recall even one useful idea from each book. That moment was a… · Shared by 606, including Johannes Dornisch, Vitor Furtado Silva, David Perell, Matthias Kahr, Ubaidas TInker, Stefan Diepolder, Marcus Raitner, Rich, Matthias Wiencke, venkat - bala, Katja Evertz, Evan (he/him), Antonio Ramos, Michael Carroll, Aamir Raz, Jeremy Caplan, Tauno, Linus Basig
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Time is not a measure of productivity
5 min · · Using principles from hourly work to define productivity in knowledge work has resulted in highly inefficient work conditions for many employees. Time is not a measure of productivity. · Shared by 198, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Evan (he/him), Matt, Antonio Ramos, Phillip Murphy, Shawn Venasse, Oscar MacDonald, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Katja Evertz