Second Opinions and Self-Deception
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We’re swift to recognize when other people need to think again. We question the judgement of experts whenever we seek out a second opinion on a medical diagnosis. Unfortunately, when it comes to our knowledge and opinions, we often favor feeling right over being right. In everyday life, we make diagnoses of our own, ranging
The Problem Isn’t Reading. It’s What We Teach Boys to Value
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I’m clearly a reader and I have a house of readers, sometimes to the detriment of my kids getting ready for school on time. This video ties together some interesting points about how when a hobby or field becomes just over 50% women, men suddenly flock away from it to the point where a field
A Notebook is too slow?
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What if a notebook doesn’t keep up with your thoughts? Wait, what if you’re thinking about it all wrong and you’re attempting to move far faster than you can realistically while giving your tasks and ideas the thought they require? I still sit with a notebook in front of me daily. I track my tasks
Bob Doto on Note-Taking – A No-Nonsense Guide to Writing with Purpose
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Next month the book club is reading Think Again by Adam Grant Join the book club to get all the content in your inbox. While the most famous book about starting a Zettelkasten may be How to Take Smart Notes it’s not necessarily the best book on the topic. Valuable entries have come from Dan
Readwise Reader: Sync, Highlight, and Read Smarter
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After covering a bunch of read later options recently the most requested option has been Readwise Reader. Readwise is a compelling option with RSS integration, Kobo/Kindle integrations, sync with Obsidian and to top it off the ability to send various content to it so you can read and highlight it later. Disclaimer: Readwise gave me
The Creativity Scam – How Capitalism Exploits Innovation
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Creativity is a constant buzzword found in job descriptions, government speeches, and is used to describe how our public institutions should work. In the book Against Creativity, Oli Mould tries to push past all the rhetoric of creativity to find out who is served by the creative juices that are supposed to be flowing. Mould
Lou’s personal blog
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I read Lou’s blog and love the tidbits of life he shares. I do think of his wife as Wonder Woman and have no idea what her “real” name is. I’d love to know about your personal blog too.
I’ve tried so many systems to get more done
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I’ve tried so many creative systems to make myself work faster. Again and again, I have found that pushing myself simply steals from the future. Every time I push too hard and cut back down to a sustainable pace, I’m tempted to test my boundaries, to add just a little more, a little more, a
Good Notes Take Discipline – Not Magic
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So far as we’ve looked at A System for Writing we’ve talked about words being scary, taking more time to process your notes, and exposed the “writing is easy” lie that gurus try to pass off. What we haven’t covered is what I think it takes to have a good note system. Not Magic I’ve
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