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AI generated illustration of a wooden card box, or Zettelkasten, with a note card reading "AI: augments human judgement, useful for pattern recognition, requires good data and structure"
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Using AI to Take Notes

Reading source material, taking notes, then transcribing and rearranging those notes, and finding connections between them are all central to thinking, according to Sönke Ahrens. Legendary note-taker Niklas Luhman argued that it was impossible to think without writing. Now of course you could very easily feed a LLM a big stack of research papers and…

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Work with the Garage Door Up

“Working with the garage door up,” brings to mind a garage workshop where neighbors can drop in, watch your progress, use your tools, and learn something in the process. You may learn something as well. Andy Matushack gets the idea from Robin Sloan, who talks about biking past the open door of a woodworking shop…