Let's riff on "Epistemological Improv" (ht @micahtredding)

I sense we'll encounter interesting ideas

If truth is a map to the territory of reality, epistemological critique is the relentless questioning of how the map was made

I have to admit that this has been my tendency

https://twitter.com/kcorazo/status/1673833891499757568

Girard scholarship has been an example of "Yes and"

Eg, his handling of Freud's and Nietzsche's ideas has made me appreciate how original and innovative their ideas are. At the same time, he plainly shows better alternatives to their maps (eg, mimesis vs Oedipus complex)

I have a threadapalooza idea

I'll riff on this song "Take Me To Church" to talk about a theory I have of how #roamcult 2020 happened

1 like = 1 tweet https://t.co/EZIyMqs9KG

https://twitter.com/kcorazo/status/1566036815282184193

now might be the right time

it has been years, so maybe everyone is already out of the spell and old wounds have already healed

1/ The core of your work as an entrepreneur or self-employed creator is your craft (writing, coding, leading, trading, etc)

Yet to turn your vision to reality, you also need to coordinate many other kinds of work

What's the minimum effective dose of project management for you? 2/ Let's start with the entire toolkit of professional project managers

Here's table 1-1 of the bible of the profession, the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)

Which of these are the 80/20?

All your bases of culture are belong to us Escaped the tourist bubble and went to the market of the nearest town

Found some tuba, ancestral liquor from fermented coconut tree sap

It's already hard to find this in big cities. I was told the tuba makers are getting old w no next gen

Glad to see the tradition alive here

1/ I spent most of my life working to get good at turning desires to reality: productivity, project management, persuasion

Yet, I never questioned those desires

Not until @lukeburgis introduced me to Mimetic Theory (h/t @louisepereira)

A thread on his book, Wanting 2/ The 1st half of the book introduces us to René Girard and Mimetic Theory

How are people's desires created?

It turns out we model them on the desires of the people who surround us

Sounds convergent with status games and hormones

https://twitter.com/Roamfu/status/1505548147270905858

Highlights from the Robert Sapolsky interview at the Huberman Lab podcast

1/ Testosterone moves us to protect/increase our status

BUT those status games are dictated by the people we are playing with (this is possibly part of the neuroscience of mimetic theory) 2/ practicing metarationality should include awareness of ones testosterone levels, as it increases how confident we feel

Also, this is probably the neuroscience behind the virtuous cycle of practice, increased competence, real world impact and recognition, confidence

1/ And just like that, I've been using Roam—almost daily!—for more than 2 years.

Anniversary thread: wielding your Tool for Thought = creating a language for collaborating with your past and future selves.

Let's explore this idea and share some examples! 2/ We were already doing this collaboration with the OG TfT, paper. We wrote down thoughts that might be useful for our future selves.

Our notes had metadata. For instance, which notebook or section we wrote in indicated its location in our mental topography.

Barbell strategy w $:
- cap downside. put most of your time and money in safe investments
- open up upside: put losable money in speculative high-reward investments

Barbell strategy in notes:
- get things done / remember (cap downside)
- design serendipity (next tweets)

https://twitter.com/MikeKra36812131/status/1496495140940169221

This was the promise of the Zettelkasten...

https://twitter.com/kcorazo/status/1252669459157770240

1/15 MUSE MANAGEMENT 101

Before you even get to use the craft of bringing ideas to reality (project management), you need find the fire and the north star for those arduous journeys.

Yet we have few playbooks. Let's share what we've got. Here's mine. 2/ Life is short. What should we do with this limited time?

Our choices must move us and must be aligned with our values and life principles.

It is much easier to find ideas that move us (muses) then filter them with our values, than the other way around (cf. diagram in 1/)

Mayan hieroglyphs

p.93 Her Cup for Sweet Cacao

(a) ka-wa, kakaw, “cacao,” from a Late Classic polychrome vessel (K8947); (b) b’u-la, b’u’l, “beans,” from a polychrome vessel from the area of Río Azul (K2914);

Why is cacao so complex? @petercorazo @harveykrishna_ Figure 1. Piedras Negras Panel 3 (drawing by Alexander Safronov, <wayeb.org>). redalyc.org/pdf/2470/24702…

1/ How do I write a Michael Pollan style book on cacao, drinking chocolate and the forgotten Philippine-Mexico history?

Mid 2019 some muse visited me at 4am and showed me "Flowstate Chocolate"

I did that biz and it was terrible money-wise lol

Maybe I misheard the muse? 2/ Maybe she wanted me to write a book instead?

There's some early reader feedback. I wrote a thread on chocolate for Threadapalooza 2020 and it was the first time anyone described a thread I wrote as "magic"

https://twitter.com/hamishfrob/status/1339907910139322371

Ongoing TIL thread on Natural Hormone Enhancement by Rob Faigin

(judging by the cover and the writing, this is probably like @nntaleb's heuristic to choose surgeons that don't look like surgeons [of similar level of recommendations]) Didn't know growth hormone was the 2nd

A note on writing: go easy on superlatives

Huberman on how to focus and neuroplasticity in adults

1/7 we activate mental focus through visual focus! TIL 2/7 biochemical explanation of vision-focus/mental-focus connection.

How to apply.

Huberman practices not blinking.

1/16 REWRITE THE STARS WITH ROAM: let's exchange notes on how we bend the arc of fate with atomic task and project management.

12 months ago, in COVID lock-down, I felt powerless, like never before.

So I retreated to my graph.

Here's the story of what happened since then. 2/ I'm sharing this now because @rjnestor and I are hosting a gathering of Roamans at @interintellect this May 22.

Many of us have been using Roam for task and project management. It's high time we exchange notes on our workflows and tactics. interintellect.com/salon/roaman-p…

1/9 THE SOUL OF THE ZETTELKASTEN IS THE PRACTICE, NOT THE STRUCTURE

I gave up on the Zettelkasten because it was too costly in terms of discipline, which I try to conserve for emergencies.

But come to think of it, ZK is actually is working for me and I'm actually doing it. 2/ As a practice, the Zettelkasten is essentially:
- writing ideas in independent containers
- have a practice of stringing together these containers
- fabricate serendipity among these containers

1/12 ATOMIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT: USE THE POWER OF ATOMIC NOTE-TAKING TO BRING YOUR IDEAS TO REALITY

So @Conaw inadvertently jumped the gun with his thread on project management.

Might as well share the mastaplann* now—I'm inviting all of #roamcult to be co-conspirators. 2/ The connective tissue of projects, big and small, is the block reference.

The reason I use Roam as my main PM tool is that it allows me to move seamlessly across projects and between PM and task management.

Block references make this possible.

https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1363648114666577926

1/ REGAIN YOUR TIME (THE LOGIC BEHIND NOTENINJA)

In school, most of us had more time than money.

Many of us unconsciously carry over this mindset.

If you earn more than $10/hr (our pricing), you can profit with YOUR TIME if you get an assistant to do work you don't like.

DM. 2/ If you learn better with someone helping you one-on-one, DM and I'll match you with a Roaman tutor. You pay the tutor directly. I suggest paying at least the median, and more if the tutor did a really good job.

Please include in your DM what you want to use Roam for.

1/ PROJECT-DRIVEN PRODUCTIVITY (a chapter in ROAMforPM.com)

This is my main reason for using Roam for project management. I seamlessly switch between projects, and between the commanding heights of PM to the daily execution of task management.

Sharing my workflow. 2/ This system designed on 4 truths and against 2 falsehoods.

Let me share them first, so you can implement this the way you want. Then I'll share my implementation.

Truth #1: projects are pathways towards creating a future you want. It is the craft of bringing ideas to reality

[[#RoamGames v1]] THE PM TOOLS YOU'LL LEARN IN ROAMforPM.COM AND HOW YOU'LL LEARN THEM

There are really just two things you need to know as project manager:
- The problems you are supposed to solve
- How to solve them

The rBook shares 12 problem/solutions. THREAD: 1. Problem: What is the work needed to accomplish this project?

Solution: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

https://twitter.com/Roamfu/status/1355541627259940867

1/ NEXT LEVEL FREEDOM: ELECTED ATTENTION

In Scripture, exorcists need to find out the name of a devil first before they could banish it.

h/t to @AlexanderELundy for naming a devil I've been attempting to exorcise: unelected leisure.

How do you defeat this boss? 2/ This devil wants you to spend your limited lifetime for entities which may not have your best interest in mind.

For instance, I have wasted so much of my lifetime in YouTube. Some entity bought my attention pretty cheap (I'm an advertiser so I know). And I mindlessly sold it.

1/ WHY LEARN PROFESSIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- do it right
- bring more ideas to reality
- less stress 2/ It turns out there's actually an established way of doing projects.

I found out about professional project management when I was in corporate tech. It made me look back at my college years. If only I knew this back then, I would have done a better job with less stress.