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Tasting Notes With Robin Sloan
"Most good material is forgotten.
Write down the funniest or most interesting thing that happens to you each day. Most days will be boring, but if you write something each day, then you'll have 5 to 10 entertaining stories within a year or two. People are sitting on more funny stories than they realize because they do not have a habit of capturi... See more
Noticing is good. Storing and remembering what you’ve noticed is great. It turns your noticing into research. You’ll remember more of what you’ve noticed. You’ll collide ideas together, which will multiply the value of everything. And you’ll learn something about yourself, your own passions and interests.
Russell Davies • Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)
Your job as a notetaker is to preserve the notes you’re taking on the things you discover in such a way that they can survive the journey into the future. That way your excitement and enthusiasm for your knowledge builds over time instead of fading away.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
The key is to capture as many hunches as possible, and to spend as little time as possible organizing or filtering or prioritizing them. (Keeping a single, chronological file is central to the process, because it forces you to scroll through the whole list each time you want to add something new.) Just get it all down as it comes to you, and make r... See more