1/23 WHY I USE @ROAMRESEARCH FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT
🔹Fabricating serendipity towards ikigai
🔹Zettelkasten for entrepreneurs, artists & civic leaders
Here's the video version: loom.com/share/6dc066d9…
Thread version below
🔹Fabricating serendipity towards ikigai
🔹Zettelkasten for entrepreneurs, artists & civic leaders
Here's the video version: loom.com/share/6dc066d9…
Thread version below
2/ I started using Roam because of Zettelkasten. I wanted to improve my writing process.
3/ It has been 6 months since I've opened a Roam account. And I've only written one long-form article 🤷🏽♂️ roambrain.com/i-tried-to-bui… @RoamBrain And this was just an elaboration of a Twitter thread.
4/ The Zettelkasten fulfilled its promise. That was one of the easiest writing experiences I've had. But I've essentially stopped writing long form. However, I've made a lot of threads scrapbox.io/kahlil/Roam-fu (this doesn't include my genomics tweets).
5/ These threads led me to the most exciting projects in my life...
like bringing genomic pathogen surveillance to the developing world...
like bringing genomic pathogen surveillance to the developing world...
6/ and creating a "Native Roaman" Project Management Training (the training material is within Roam - you import the course JSON)... and I'm using what I've learned orchestrating experiential learning in the past decade.
7/ Why am I so excited about these projects? There's this concept I've been encountering in the past years but never really explored until now: Ikigai. These projects are ikigai for me (I explain why in the video). 
8/ The Zettelkasten could also be seen as collaborative work between your past, present and future selves. If you combine this idea with ikigai, you have a temporal ikigai: the project that best fits your past, present and future selves.
9/ Your past self chose goals, presumably with some serious thinking. You cannot predict your future, but you can extrapolate from the past: your values will likely stay the same. Projects must be meaningful to your rider and attractive to your stallion.
11/ I came across this tweet a few days ago. Even a preternatural being cannot predict what new creatures emerge with promiscuous cross-pollination of ideas.
12/ Key question: HOW DO I GET MORE OF THESE? How do I systematize what has been largely accidental? How do I **fabricate serendipity** among my ideas—towards ikigai projects? "Fabrication of serendipity" is how the Zettelkasten is described by one paper:
13/ The Zettelkasten was created by an academic for academics. Let's see first how they are using it before we reconstruct it for our own purposes. The best public zettelkasten I've seen is @andy_matuschak's. His goal is to "produce novel, powerful ideas."
14/ You should check out @RobertHaisfield's Roaman tours. In this one, we see inside the graph of @JoelChan86. 6:40 Zettels are building blocks to build bigger theories or problem formulation. This is an inside look at how academics work
15/ The idea-to-reality production stack was my attempt to map out the tools for thought I use (*), teach (✅) and have some experience/interest in (the rest), in order to relate the Zettelkasten with the other tools.
16/ With this language, we can contrast the work of academics with that of entrepreneurs—and also artists and civic leaders—professionals whose work aim to create change in the world: businesses, works of art, movements.
17/ This difference may explain why the vanilla Zettelkasten just work for me. If your goal is to change reality, your zettels must get out of the kasten as soon as possible. Here's my process for doing that:
18/ If we zoom in the lower-right sextant of the idea-to-reality production stack (project management), we could create this concept map plectica.com/maps/IG6KRQL07
19/ Most PM software (lowest rightmost) are designed for aligning the work of teams: activity list plus features like assigning dependencies in a Gantt chart view, setting task owners and due dates, automated reminders, and context-specific conversations between project members.
20/ The software I used for project planning (middle column) were mindmaps & spreadsheets. Any writing tool would do for project initiation.
@RoamResearch feels like it was designed for the left and middle columns: reimagining reality and plotting how to get to this new reality.
@RoamResearch feels like it was designed for the left and middle columns: reimagining reality and plotting how to get to this new reality.
21/ How you think is influenced by the tools for thought you use. I'm using Roam for PM as an experiment to see how project management is different with the something designed for networked thought. Will Roam fabricate serendipity toward more ikigai projects?
22/ What are the pros and cons of using Roam for project conceptualization and planning? How far rightward could you use Roam in project management? Sign-up if you want to join me in this journey: bit.ly/roamfu-pm
23/23 More Roam-fu threads, articles and training: scrapbox.io/kahlil/Roam-fu
