Thinking Tools & Methods
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andymatuschak.org
How to write good prompts
andymatuschak.org
20+ min read · 46 saves · Jan 1st · Using spaced repetition to create understanding
In Creativity
Ness Labs
5 thinking tools to add to your metacognitive toolbox
Ness Labs
3 min read · 272 saves · Jan 12th · Bloom's taxonomy, DOVE brainstorming... Add these five thinking tools borrowed from education to your metacognitive toolbox.
Bret Victor
Explorable Explanations
Bret Victor
9 min read · 71 saves · From 2015 · What does it mean to be an active reader? An active reader asks questions, considers alternatives, questions assumptions, and even questions the trustworthiness of the author. An active reader tries…
In Innovation
medium.com
Optimize Your Backlog for Innovation with These Prioritization Frameworks
medium.com
3 min read · 148 saves · Jan 3rd · Jordan D Lamborn · Whether you’re at a startups or a large company, here are some tools for planning innovation from people who know way more than me.
In Brain
Psychology Today
How to See the Blind Spots in Your Thinking
Psychology Today
4 min read · 282 saves · 2020-12-31 · What you don't know can hurt you.
email.getpocket.com
Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking
email.getpocket.com
2020-12-26 · Talking out loud to oneself is a technology for thinking that allows us to clarify and sharpen our approach to a problem
In Books
denzhadanov.com
How I read books: a guide on how to learn
denzhadanov.com
~15 min read · 302 saves · 2020-12-02 · Denys Zhadanov · Disclaimer: I’ve spend hours researching this topic and simplifying things for you.It gets a bit nerdy, but if you apply these techniques…
todoist.com
The Complete Guide to Time Blocking
todoist.com
~13 min read · 11 saves · 2020-07-12 · Everything you need to know to take back your workday from meetings, email, & busy work and protect time for what's truly important to you.
In Science
Ness Labs
Connected Papers: a visual tool for academic research
Ness Labs
3 min read · 148 saves · 2020-10-14 · 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…
Ness Labs
Survivorship bias: when failure gets forgotten
Ness Labs
3 min read · 24 saves · 2020-10-13 · Survivorship bias is a common bias that leads to false conclusions by focusing on the elements that made it past a selection process, and overlooking the ones that did not.
acko.net
Tools for Thought
acko.net
6 min read · 22 saves · From 2016 · Presented at the Tools for Thought workshop, Recurse Center, NYC 2016 Hi, I'm Steven. I usually start with my website, aka that site with that header, as my defacto calling card. This effect is…
untools.co
Tools for better thinking
untools.co
219 saves · 2020-05-25 · Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
