1/ A lot of ppl have been asking about PDF reading workflow for personal knowledge management. Here is the super simple one that fulfills all my needs. Start by creating a Resource folder on Dropbox with PDFs I want to read. Access it via @PDFExpert6 file browser
2/ Open a PDF and use highlight feature to highlight passages you want to keep
3/ When finished, tap three dots and then “Email.” For some reason the option to export only highlights doesn’t appear when I tap “Share”
4/ Next, tap “Annotations Summary” which exports highlights, plus the highlighted PDF as an attachment. Best of both worlds
5/ This will generate a new email with the highlighted passages in the body. Email it to your designated Evernote Import Email, which you can find in settings (I recommend saving this to your contacts)
6/ Sync Evernote and it will be created as a new note. Now you can do progressive summarization
7/ At the bottom of the note the original PDF will be attached if you need to dive deeper
8/ Opening it you will see all your original highlights in context

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Dec 15, 2021
Presenting...my top 20 reads of the year

Including an excerpt or takeaway from each one

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1/ How an Excel TikToker Manifested Her Way to Making 6 Figures a Day by @reckless ft. @themissexcel

Eye-opening look into the emerging power of TikTok specifically, and a new generation of social algorithms designed to surface new talent generally

theverge.com/authors/nilay-…
2/ Ruggedize Your Life, by @AlexSteffen

Most pieces on climate change present vague arguments w/out specifics. Alex strikes a practical balance of realistic strategies we can take to prepare in short to medium term for impacts already happening

alexsteffen.substack.com/p/ruggedize-yo…
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Jul 10, 2021
1/ The cohort-based course I’d most like to see:

How to survive and thrive in the face of climate change, individually and collectively
2/ It would address 3 major problems I see with most discussions on climate change:

1. Too much focus on convincing people
2. Too conceptual and global
3. Too narrowly focused on one aspect
3/ #1 – Too focused on convincing ppl

Those who aren’t yet convinced it’s real never will be. Beliefs not based on facts can’t be changed by facts

I want a course that doesn’t waste time on the background and focuses on what we can do to prevent, postpone, or mitigate impacts
Read 10 tweets
Jul 5, 2021
1/ I think of every creator business in the creator economy as being built on a 6-level “stack”:

Level 6: Social distribution
Level 5: Email distribution
Level 4: Content hosting
Level 3: Content creation
Level 2: Ideation & development
Level 1: Information capture
2/ It is a “supply chain of ideas” from the first moment an idea pops into your head, all the way to spreading all over the world via the internet

The lower levels are like R&D and wholesale warehouses, and the higher layers are retail stores and “last mile” delivery of products
3/ To have a viable business that can monetize effectively and stand the test of time, every creator ultimately has to own or control every level in their stack

For every level you don’t control, you become vulnerable to a gatekeeper or platform squeezing you for money & power
Read 10 tweets
May 24, 2021
1/ The act of building a Second Brain is an act of revolution
2/ Your experience is the sum of the information you consume

When you take control of that information stream, you push your world into a state of change

You become a destabilizing force to the prevailing worldview
3/ Your ability to shape your information stream becomes the power to shape your own experience

Once you master this, you can also shape the experiences of others

It’s all just information
Read 15 tweets
Apr 8, 2021
1/ The upcoming cohort of our Building a Second Brain course, cohort 12, will be the last time we offer all students lifetime access to join future cohorts

This was a really difficult decision, and I wanted to explain our thinking around it
2/ This won’t affect anyone who’s purchased the course in the past. Students through cohort 12 will always be able to join any future cohort

And it only applies to joining live Zoom calls. Everyone will continue to get future curriculum updates & lifetime access to Circle
3/ First, why did we offer lifetime access in the first place?

Honestly, in the early days it was because I was embarrassed by the quality of the course. I had no idea what I was doing, didn’t live up to my own standards, and lifetime access was my way of making up for it
Read 14 tweets
Mar 20, 2021
1/ My latest thoughts on one of the most common questions I receive about building a Second Brain:

How and when do I *retrieve* all the knowledge I've saved in my second brain?

👇👇👇👇👇👇
2/ Retrieval is a trickier question than it seems on the surface, because it's not inherently desirable

If you never encounter a situation where a given note is relevant, than the ideal amount of retrieval is exactly zero
3/ Because retrieval takes work and energy, we want to minimize it unless we know it will be worth it

As with so many things in productivity, our motto should be "as much as necessary, as little as possible"
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