Something I like to do in my spare time is swapping words out in sentences and exploring what they could possibly mean, eg.
Writing an essay
___ an essay
?
Painting an essay
Building an essay
Calculating an essay
...
Helps with broadening my tacit definitions!
eg, if writing an essay means penning down an experience or thought into words, painting an essay could mean doing the same but on a canvas, your words are colours and the shapes are your beliefs
After you get bored of it, the next step is to question the meaning of the word essay
You're bound to find some commonalities between these words so it'll get saturated, and the only way to move forward then is to question the very thing you're working on
What IS an essay?
There's also remixing book names and exploring what they could mean:
The Past is a Foreign Country -> The Future is an Unknown Continent
How to Read a Book -> How to Listen to a Conversation
Atomic Habits -> Galactic Systems
All titles are books waiting to be written about!
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Do knowledge workers do something like 'collective thinking sessions'?
eg. A 2 hour session where you have an agenda for discussion/thinking a topic:
First 30m: Discussing potential questions, fallbacks, etc.
1hr: deep thinking work in silence
Last 30m: Discussion and review
I would think this format works really well, especially in CKM environments which is what Roam is advocating for (the digital version of this session)
(currently thinking of more ways to get into that environment where I'm compelled to naturally deep dive into topics etc.)
I'm under the firm belief that with proper controlled conditions, you can broaden angles in thinking about something depending on number of people involved:
Solo in private: chaotic freedom
Collective sessions: Conversational insight
Thinking in public: According to the world
Video starts at 0:44 onwards (was confused with Youtube live-streaming haha), and includes notes from @rroudt, @JoelChan86, @beauhaan, @Roamfu, and biggest contributor in the chat @aravindballa 🎉 thank you!
And by Bob Ross I mean, extremely calm and soothing to listen from, thinks well, when you take in anything they do you enter a state of bliss that protects you from the world (unless I’m missing something from Bob Ross that I don’t know here)
For preservation, how I came to this thought: I woke up thinking “the infinite canvas is a potential barrier for mass thinkers because they lean towards order on the chaos vs order spectrum” and canvases led me to painters -> Bob Ross -> who’s a Bob Ross Thinker
Friday night tinkering with my graph workflow is a different flavour of fun for some strange reason
Anybody got any good thinking music? My music player shuffled to Hoobastank's The Reason and I don't know if these feels are what I need for knowledge work atm 😅
Here's a 6 minute video of me exploring the viability of my current Roam42 jumpnav system on my private graph if you're interested - it's boring stuff if you're not interested in mouseless 😅 share.descript.com/view/Xu5BFXwuP…
Everything is a conversation. That's a firm belief I've always had for a very long time.
Every question has an answer, and every response a stepping stone to another discussion.
There are intonations, emotions, accents, and more that can never be captured in a blogpost.
A conversation *feels* different. In a podcast, you capture the content AND context.
But it's rigid. It's hard to get atomic unless you timestamp a specific part of the episode. You STILL have to refer to the whole episode (think of this as page vs. block-level referencing)