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1/ Notes from @vgr 's wide-ranging talk on @fortelabs #buildasecondbrain yesterday. Ripping & rewriting for myself. Feedback pls
@vgr @fortelabs 2/ Personal "productivity" is agency: take control of your own life (your todos) or someone else will
@vgr @fortelabs 3/ Yr not free to extract value from your own experience until you take charge of your agency
@vgr @fortelabs 4/ Food as thought metaphor: info is permanent, ideas are perishable. Thus, use some form of PKM to capture & connect your experiences
@vgr @fortelabs 5/ You already have a PKM. It's in your head. How you formalise it for yield is a whole other matter. Thus #buildasecondbrain
@vgr @fortelabs 6/ PKM = personal knowledge management
@vgr @fortelabs 7/ Yr PKM can be anything that accounts for you. Structured just enough to allow you to capture/org…
@vgr @fortelabs 8/ …but thereafter allow a serendipitous mess/soup to feed you ideas, find new recipes.
@vgr @fortelabs 9/ PKM as mind palace.
PKM as technological prosthetic.
PKM as applied anthropology.
PKM as technological prosthetic.
PKM as applied anthropology.
@vgr @fortelabs 10/ Learning to see your own PKM: is it a rhizome or is it arborescent? Can you process info as thru-put or are you stuck thinking as input?
@vgr @fortelabs 11/ Learning to how to operate on/with yr PKM: converge v diverge, appreciative v manipulative
@vgr @fortelabs 12/ Account for distributed cognition. Our thinking lives in many diff places. I keep forgetting what & how much I leave in Slack…
@vgr @fortelabs 14/ "Superficial beauty is expensive in a rhizome." Form follows function in your PKM. Eg. don't build yrself a Brasilia (of high modernism)
@vgr @fortelabs 15/ Remember, all models are wrong but some are useful. Once you've mastered your PKM techniques, be like water. Fight with no style 🙅🏻♂️
@vgr @fortelabs 16/ "…if it gets too conscious, I get bored with it". Free-form exploration on the frontier. Optimise for interesting.
@vgr @fortelabs 17/ When pivoting agency, identity must change: "a wormhole appears if you can throw out your status associations, mental models of self"
@vgr @fortelabs 18/ Don't underestimate executive decision making for yourself. Blank canvases & reviews are hard. But if not done, you took the blue pill.
@vgr @fortelabs 19/ So do yr mapping constantly. Starts w situational self awareness, mindfully noticing eg "I've never seen a truck in that laneway before"
@vgr @fortelabs 20/ Then ask better Qs. Or use PKM to feed you opportunistic remixed Qs, eg. @fortelabs #randomnote
@vgr @fortelabs 21/ Ps. @swardley's why of purpose (appreciative?) + why of movement (manipulative?)
@vgr @fortelabs @swardley 22/ D in OODA starts when know yr boundaries/constraints. Act swiftly w focus. What you can't do, delegate/trade to your networks.
@vgr @fortelabs @swardley 23/ Then rinse, repeat. Keep pruning your PKM flora. Full stack freelancer reqs a "resurrection narrative". Fin 🙊🙉🙈
