Thread by @cortexfutura

What are the [[Fundamental Skills of Knowledge Work]]? What do you think, #roamcult?

Boring but almost certainly the most undervalued skill by people typing on keyboards for a living the world over: typing speed.

Common objection to that: "My typing is irrelevant, it's the thinking that counts". Wrong. If a basketball player has to consciously think about how many steps they can take while dribbling, they get nowhere. If you need to look at your fingers to hit the right keys – fix that.

Direct layer above typing speed: using keyboard shortcuts. If you can type you can use shortcuts, which makes life much, much easier for you.

Another skill: writing as a process – going from idea to draft to edited and published artefact. Doing this efficiently can be practiced and involves a workflow that can be optimized.

Writing as communication: structuring your writing to clearly articulate what you think/want/need is a learnable skill. Involves everything from essays to emails. Did someone build the "how to write emails" course that I think @patio11 was talking about a while ago?

Reading as a process – how to get what you want from the stuff you're reading. Tightly coupled to note-taking and note-making.

Input curation for your reading: designing your input feeds so they deliver material relevant to your actual interests and not just dopamine rushes with irrelevant info that ends up making you upset.

Task management. I can't help you with that because I suck at it, but it sadly is an unavoidable thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Someone who can help with that is @rjnestor – his course on task management in Roam was able to help even me:
courses.rjnestor.com/p/powerful-tas…

Another thing I look forward to in that space is @Roamfu's new book coming out soon

https://twitter.com/Roamfu/status/1354045807146668037

Another skill: leveraging Spaced Repetition. @houshuang and @adam_krivka's efforts for bringing that to Roam are awesome, and @andy_matuschak and @michael_nielsen's work should be required reading for any knowledge worker.

Thinking well: I'm still figuring out how to frame this – Algorithms of Thought certainly have something to do with this, lots of directions this has been tackled from, but more work to do. @roamhacker's work is a shining beacon for what already is and soon will be possible.

Often overlooked imo but at least equally important: physical and mental fitness. Mens sana in corpore sano definitely belongs into Lindy-effect territory of universal wisdom.