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You Have Valuable Stuff in your Notes – PKM Weekly Dec 17 2023 – Issue 101
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If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. You could also purchase a course if that fits your needs better. You can get this in your inbox by signing up. There are Valuable…
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Overwork is a Systematic Issue – Member Update Nov 25 2023
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The world around us wants us to believe that it’s our fault we feel overworked. If we just watch one more video from the currently hot productivity guru, we’ll be able to tame our task lists. Today we’ll talk about how the system built around us is built to overwork us, and make it think…
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How to Do Nothing
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Jenny Odell spends the first half of this book looking at how to disengage from the attention economy and the second half trying to give us the tools to engage with something worthwhile in our live. I particularly like the idea she presents that social media promotes connectivity, mere likes and shares, while what we…
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How to Make Notes and Write
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The goal of Dan’s book is to teach you to take good notes and turn them into good writing in the academic/school world. Dan says that if you have an assignment you should always be able to find something interesting in it and turn that interesting bit into something you can write well about. I’d…
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Library as Serendipity and Writing is Thinking – PKM Weekly Issue 096 for Nov 12 2023
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If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. You could also purchase a course if that fits your needs better. You can get this in your inbox by signing up. The Library is…
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Greg’s Right Social Media is not Docs
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Again Greg is right social media is not documentation. It may be an easy way to pat yourself on the back to say you’ve got documentation, but it’s not documentation. Just like Discord is not documentation and it’s not a very effective customer communication channel. In the case Greg cites, I don’t even think I…
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New Isn’t Better and You’re Not the Exception
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New isn’t necessarily better, it is only new – Path Less Pedaled So Bear 2.0 is out, and I’m not trying to say it’s a bad application. If it works for you…use it and don’t worry about what other people say about any other tool. Keep taking notes in the app that works for you.…
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Should You Read How to Make Notes and Write by Dan Allosso
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There has been a glut of note-making books in the last few years, some are decent, and some are thinly veiled attempts at generating intellectual property so the author can sell you on more courses. I’m happy to say that How to Make Notes and Write by Dan Alloso and SF Allosso is one of…
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Knowledge Work is Leaky
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The dark side of the freedom of knowledge work is that it’s leaky. To read this whole post become a member. Members get all my courses in addition to weekly research notes..
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Matt Says Camcorders Were Weird Too
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Matt says that camcorders were weird too and people tensed up when camcorders came out. Now technology has changed enough that a phone coming out to take a video changes little about the behaviour of most people. On some level, I agree. Vision Pro will change lots and people will get used to it. My…