📖Sönke Ahrens | zettelkasten | база знаний | философия

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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