Thread by @r_ganesh

Here are a few thought-provoking statements and phrases I noted (not all verbatim) from the discussion @fortelabs @visakanv @danshipper had on note-taking and information management as part of secondbrainsummit.com 1/

T: The bottleneck of your creativity is not that one feature in a tool 2/

T: People like @vgr seem to use Twitter as an idea laboratory, not adopting a specific tone or projecting a carefully selected image 3/

V: Many who complain about the hellhole that they experience online are surprised to hear that it is possible to use the Internet in a useful, healthy, fun way 4/

Saw on chat: "...what people did on YouTube before 'YouTuber' was a thing" and wondered if it can be a template...
How did people influence others before influencer was a thing
5/

D: Notetaking should ideally be like a research assistant whose job is to read, remember, and resurface 6/

T: Most technology progress has been toward making people choose the path of least resistance, which contrasts with the way some tool loyalists spend enormous effort in tweaking their setup to derive benefits from the tool 7/

I resonate with what Callie C said on chat: Sometimes I write things down to keep me engaged now, rather than to reuse later 8/

T: One you have about a thousand notes, the breakthrough is not going to occur with adding one more note, you need some way to capitalize what you already have, maybe with a new approach or tool 9/

V: At some point you have to switch to Doing the Work, Moving Down the Pipeline 10/

T: Often your community or organization has made some key platform and version choices for you, including when to upgrade

V: If you want to keep exploring new tools and versions forever, the market will indulge you today 11/

Finishing with this gem from @visakanv in the context of diversity of tools/standards...

The annoyingness we experience is also the crucible for #innovation 12/12

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