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July 12, 2021. Last modified: July 13, 2021

9:15 hyperlinks as a misleading trend
~15:00 mostly interested in thinking, even though the book is marketed for productivity
15:40 decentralized ideas
- every ideas has to be compared with seemingly similar ideas
- instead of using idea/topic as a filter (re: confirmation bias)
- ~17:00 comparing ideas in brain is hard because our brain is good for finding similarities but differences
  - comparing written notes is easy
- forces you to be rigorous with terms and definitions
~22:00 MOCs as a place to think about interconnectedness
- graph might be functional equivalent (but I don’t think it provides a place to think—it just shows)
~26:00 permanent/literature notes
- at the beginning, knowledge base is more about other’s ideas
- separation of literature/permanent notes forces a switch of frame to your own thinking
  - this might be unfamiliar at first
  - forces to focus on own ideas
~32:00 the role of questions
- simple questions are legit
- rhetorical questions can be answered
  - “why he writes so complicated?”
- “what question the author is trying to answer?”
- “what can I know?” “how should I live?”
  - “what have I learned?” “how should I apply?”
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