I wrote in my previous post that Tools for Thought Need a Purpose, otherwise you end up a slave to your note system, whether it’s a Zettelkasten or a collection of Evergreen Notes, creating an endless hoard of ideas because why else do you have a PKM system in the first place? Instead you need…
I’ve read a number of posts recently questioning the whole idea of Personal Knowledge Management. These folks have tried a number of different tools and approaches and always seem to arrive at the same result – it’s a ton of work with little or no ROI. Without exception the writers say “I did all this…
There’s a lot of talk about burnout these days. Workers are increasingly feeling exhausted. Anxiety levels are on the rise. Employee turnover jumped from an average of 45% in 2019 to 57% in 2020. The question is, what are we going to do about it? Computer science professor Cal Newport thinks that part of the…
In his chautauqua on being stuck Robert Pirsig identifies the cause of “stuckness” has having too many tasks at hand for your mind to process. His solution to get unstuck is “don’t try to force it, that will only get you more stuck.” But I think that’s only one form of being stuck, some kind…
I’ve run into a dead end with my Life Architecture project. My idea was that by making small, incremental changes to the structures of your life, you would arrive at a more satisfying everyday experience and better outcomes overall. Along the way I’ve come up with a workable methodology. But the results don’t seem any…
I first stumbled on A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, and Construction when visiting a friend. I was dealing with some creative roadblocks and the book stirred in me a new passion. It contains 253 “patterns,” design solutions that work together to help people create homes and neighborhoods that feel good and function well. While I’m…
For about a year or so I’ve been exploring ways to restructure my life in a more natural, “living process” kind of way. Consider that nature is not in the business of suddenly creating new structures. Instead it takes existing structures and makes small tweaks that reinforce, strengthen, and elaborate the existing structure. To get…
The idea that I’m working on here is to try and use architectural principles to redesign the structure of your life to create new structures that feel “alive” and propels you forward. The first step is to capture a vision of how you’d life to be in the future. The idea isn’t to set goals…
