If part of your job is to deal with a large amount of incoming, you actually need to respond in a timely manner and not let people down

In your old post you talked about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s open calendar and the upside of having unstructured time in your day and the flexibility you get with that. When Arnold did that interview I think he was in “entrepreneur mode”. At the time he was engaged in lots of entrepreneurial projects and starting lots of new businesses.

t’s more by week than by day. The day of the week determines a lot. Monday and Friday have very specific schedules because we run in the rhythm of a venture capital firm

“It’s worth keeping in mind,” he says, “that revving the creative engine to fire at higher speeds . . . means more ideas and more experiments, which also means, inevitably, more failed experiments.”

Most accidents never end up being profitable or valuable in a measurable way. But they’re necessary because they’re part of the process of developing something new. Accidents fuel creativity.

patients clearly feel that the process of telemedicine (logistical things like ease of scheduling and making audio/video connections) falls short: while 89% of patients would recommend their provider after having had a telemedicine visit, only 76% of patients would recommend a video visit following a telemedicine visit.

attitudes moving from, This provider must not think my problem is important since they are seeing me via telehealth, to This provider cares about me and therefore is seeing me via telehealth.”

Among the reasons the telehealth connection seems to resonate with patients is that providers can actually seem more attentive on-screen. One patient commented that while her doctor always seemed distracted by a computer screen during in-person visits, during video visits the doctor looked directly at her.

As new models of care emerge, decision-makers will need to determine where to draw the line between the need for in-person visits versus telecare visits. Hybrid models that combine in-person visits with telecare could improve the efficiency of care and increase patient engagement and convenience while maintaining aspects of the physician-patient relationship for which in-person visits are essential. Providers will also need to pilot different models of timing and length of appointments with telemedicine. Compared to infrequent in-person visits of longer duration, telecare can allow for shorter regular visits to, for example, monitor the impact of a new medication change or to assess prognosis following a hospitalization.

a thorough onboarding process is more likely to lead to successful adoption of new technologies by older adults

clinics have developed a protocol that requires an initial inventory of what technology is available to each patient, what device they find easiest to use (older adults frequently prefer tablets over computers or smartphones), and what teleconferencing platforms, if any, they are familiar with.

The model should be tailored to each individual based on what technologies they have access to and proficiency with.

he told me that what he really liked was solving problems. To me the exercises at the end of each chapter in a math textbook represent work, or at best a way to reinforce what you learned in that chapter. To him the problems were the reward. The text of each chapter was just some advice about solving them.

Revisit your favorite readings, videos, or discussions from your field.

Approach your work without expectations of the result.

Branch out into adjacent fields for inspiration and new perspectives.

Maintain a ‘Beginner’s Mind.’ The concept of “Shoshin” or “Beginner’s Mind” originates from Zen Buddhism. It asks people to practice going through life with a sense of openness and to avoid being jaded with expectations and preconceived notions. Or as Steve Jobs put it: “stay hungry, stay foolish”.

If you’re doing it correctly, you’ll often feel like a beginner over and over again

Rather than moving in a straight line, you’ll experience a rapid spurt of skill development followed by lulls of stagnation or even regression.These plateaus can last weeks, months or even years. As we watch peers brush past us and feel our own passion fade away, it can be tempting to give up on our deliberate practice and forgo the path of mastery all together.

Ignore DistractionThe distractions of everyday work and life have a way of whittling hours from the little time you do have. Waitzkin bemoans a culture that emphasizes distraction over focus:“Our obstacle is that we live in an attention-deficit culture. We are bombarded with more and more information on television, radio, cell phones, video games, the Internet. The constant supply of stimulus has the potential to turn us into addicts, always hungering for something new and prefabricated to keep us entertained.”

Ascending fields often means working closely with collaborators. You’ll curtail your success if you can’t effectively work well with others.

Our greatest power over resistance is knowing of its existence and the many forms it can take: complacency, stagnation, distraction, emotional turmoil, rejection, and burnout

Failure is uncomfortable and makes us feel weak and powerless. It brings us back to feeling like a novice, erasing all the hard work we’ve done.

Greene describes this willingness to put ourselves out there as the “Experimentation” or “The Active Mode”. He suggests the following:“Expose your work to the public for active feedback. If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll never be ready.”

A senior peer you admire may bring up a key error you’ve made, leaving you embarrassed. On the path to mastery, get comfortable with this feeling of failure.

setting goals and milestones can spur your progress forward

“A competitor needs to be process-oriented, always looking for stronger opponents to spur growth, but it is also important to keep on winning enough to maintain confidence.”

However, most performance experts say real-life mentorship is the gold standard. Leonard echoes this sentiment:“Instruction comes in many forms. For mastering most skills, there’s nothing better than being in the hands of a master teacher, either one-to-one or in a small group. But there are also books, films, tapes, computer learning programs, computerized simulators (flight simulators, for example), group instruction, the classroom, knowledgeable friends, counselors, business associates, even “the street.” Still, the individual teacher or coach can serve as a standard for all forms of instruction, the first and brightest beacon on the journey of mastery.”

Often the people whose skills you want to acquire are a click away, sharing their thoughts in an interview or tweeting about the early failures they faced in their career.

erform self-assessments. Something that separates amateurs from masters is their insistence on regular self-assessment.

There’s comfort in practicing what we’re good at, like using the same narrative arc while writing a short story or studying the scientific theories we’re already familiar with. It’s only when we expose ourselves to the uncomfortable sensation of feeling stupid or incompetent that we grow.

Greene encourages us to embrace the slog:“Second, the initial stages of learning a skill invariably involve tedium. Yet rather than avoiding this inevitable tedium, you must accept and embrace it. The pain and boredom we experience in the initial stage of learning a skill toughens our minds, much like physical exercise. Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life, which makes them constantly search for distractions and short-circuits the learning process.”

By making constant and non-negotiable space in your schedule for deliberate practice, you can continue along the path of mastery even when other priorities arise.

Deliberate practice is focused and forces you to direct your attention, again and again, towards improving your weaknesses.

Greene’s advice on making your deliberate practice valuable:“The key, then, to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don’t simply absorb information — we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.”

you’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Seek out people you can learn from. Welcome the opportunity of being the dumbest person in your circle of acquaintances

Greene describes the importance of this mindset on the path to mastery:“…value learning above everything else. This will lead you to all of the right choices. You will opt for the situation that will give you the most opportunities to learn, particularly with hands-on work.”

Your syllabus should be bottomless. Always add more to it. One insightful book may reference another that you need to devour. An artist who inspires you may cite their influences, leading you down another rabbit hole.

If you want to go into advertising, study David Ogilvy. If you want to study design, ingest the work of Dieter Rams. To understand nature writing, read Rachel Carson. Build a foundation of knowledge that includes the classics of your field.

Greene provides this poignant description of how our dreams may diminish as we move from adolescence to adulthood:“You possess a kind of inner force that seeks to guide you toward your Life’s Task—what you are meant to accomplish in the time that you have to live. In childhood this force was clear to you. It directed you toward activities and subjects that fit your natural inclinations, that sparked a curiosity that was deep and primal. In the intervening years, the force tends to fade in and out as you listen more to parents and peers, to the daily anxieties that wear away at you. This can be the source of your unhappiness—your lack of connection to who you are and what makes you unique. The first move toward mastery is always inward—learning who you really are and reconnecting with that innate force. Knowing it with clarity, you will find your way to the proper career path and everything else will fall into place.”Reflecting on what we loved to do as children can be a powerful exercise that brings us closer to the master’s path.

Life’s Task

Ten thousand hours is a non-trivial amount of your life to set towards a singular focus

given your weekly schedule

Greene suggests that achieving mastery might take around 10,000 hours. Malcom Gladwell echoes this in his book, Outliers, citing studies and examples of world class performers that indicate 10,000 hours is the “magic number of greatness”. The precise number of hours required to reach mastery is a cause of controversy, and other performance experts have noted that it’s the quality of practice that’s important, not the amount. It’s also important to note that not all hours are equal. Hours 1-100 will be much less effective than hours 8000-8100.

Mastery often means toiling for years in obscurity, learning the basics of your field, and slowly making the transition from novice to master.

If you stay the path, you’ll likely work with brilliant people, have enriching conversations, and produce acclaimed work. View these rewards as a byproduct of mastery, not its final form.

While mastery often leads to professional success and money, pursuing mastery for those reasons is self-defeating

Greene summarizes the sensation of mastery as “the feeling that we have a greater command of reality, other people, and ourselves.” He adds that a master at work often experiences a “feeling of power”, “exceptional creativity”, and a “sense of control”. Experiencing mastery is turning away from distraction and getting lost in the feeling of sharpening our skills, honing our intuition, and applying our knowledge to our work.

flow

“Mastery is not about perfection. It’s about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives.”

“Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.”

That’s not to say that genetics isn’t real or important — the proclivities and traits you’re born with are a natural starting point for mastery

It’s not a synonym for genius or giftedness. Those kinds of words suggest that greatness lies beyond our control.

mastery is the years and decades of learning, practice, failure, and hard-fought improvement that lead individuals toward unmatched greatness

Introduce students to the “explode to explain” strategy. When students “explode to explain,” they closely read a key sentence or two in a source, annotate, and practice explaining what they are thinking and learning.

But if something opens the drawer and takes out a block and says, “I just opened a drawer and took out a block,” it’s hard to say it doesn’t understand what it’s doing.

unlike a traditional computer, a blockchain computer can offer strong trust guarantees, rooted in the mathematical and game-theoretic properties of the system. A user or developer can trust that a piece of code running on a blockchain computer will continue to behave as designed, even if individual participants in the network change their motivations or try to subvert the system. This means that the control of a blockchain computer can be placed in the hands of a community

They have backed the Australian government into a corner, and now the government has no option but to reject their bullying threats and move forward with the code, or surrender our democratic processes to big tech

they ultimately put their commercial interests ahead of the democratic processes of the nations they operate in

Is the company willing to blockade the entire Google ecosystem to spite Australia?

What would become of other services like Google Maps, Google Docs and Gmail

There is no doubt that the implications of pulling Google Search in Australia would be huge

with Google having a monthly audience of 19 million and Facebook 17 million in Australia alone

For most Australians, Google and Facebook are the internet, or at the very least, the key gateway to it

content is accessible to everyone, distribution is fair and democratic, and no one platform or provider has unfair advantage

Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the web) and Vint Cerf (the “father of the internet” turned Google executive), both made submissions to the Senate inquiry

disinformation online

This is happening in an environment where credible news and public interest journalism is more important than ever - providing accurate and timely information during crises like last summer’s Australian bushfires and throughout the public health challenges of the global pandemic

Facebook too reinforced earlier threats to prevent Australian users sharing news

bombshell

social media

catastrophic impact on the news media

chilling to anyone who cares about democracy

Keep your identity small

Learn keyboard shortcuts. They’re easy to learn and you’ll get tasks done faster and easier

How you spend every day is how you spend your life

Remember that you are dying

To solve this problem, the mind creates maps of reality in order to understand it, because the only way we can process the complexity of reality is through abstraction

Despite some implementation challenges, patient portals have allowed millions of patients to access to their medical records, read physicians’ notes, message providers, and contribute valuable information and corrections.

Leadership is not necessarily coming up with all the answers

Help is coming in the form of specialized AI processors that can execute computations more efficiently and optimization techniques, such as model compression and cross-compilation, that reduce the number of computations needed. But it’s not clear what the shape of the efficiency curve will look like. In many problem domains, exponentially more processing and data are needed to get incrementally more accuracy. This means – as we’ve noted before – that model complexity is growing at an incredible rate, and it’s unlikely processors will be able to keep up. Moore’s Law is not enough. (For example, the compute resources required to train state-of-the-art AI models has grown over 300,000x since 2012, while the transistor count of NVIDIA GPUs has grown only ~4x!) Distributed computing is a compelling solution to this problem, but it primarily addresses speed – not cost.

artificial intelligence seems to be the future of software

Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other mental forces in the same brain, in neighboring brains, and thanks to global communication, in far distant, foreign brains.

the commonplace book has been particularly beloved by poets, whose business is the revelation of wholeness through the fragmentary

Long before there was the Internet, there was the commonplace book — a creative and intellectual ledger of fragmentary inspirations, which a writer would collect from other books and copy into a notebook, often alongside his or her reflections and riffs. These borrowed ideas are in dialogue with the writer’s own imagination and foment it into original thinking. Over long enough a period of time — years, decades, often a lifetime — the commonplace book, while composed primarily of copied passages, comes to radiate the singular sensibility of its keeper: beliefs are refined, ideas incubated, intellectual fixations fleshed out, and the outlines of a personhood revealed. (Brain Pickings is, in an unshakable sense, a commonplace book.)

Joy is not a function of a life free of friction and frustration, but a function of focus — an inner elevation by the fulcrum of choice. So often, it is a matter of attending to what Hermann Hesse called, as the world was about to come unworlded by its first global war, “the little joys”; so often, those are the slender threads of which we weave the lifeline that saves us.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia

there is no internet connection (Wi-Fi) in the hospital where clinical learning takes place, which was a major factor that participants reported as discouraging them from implementing learning technologie

However, the opposite was actually experienced in this study. Students reflected a lack of interest in and ability to participate in blended learning activities which seemed quite frustrating to most participan

purpose of online learning and digital technologies is to complement face-to-face teaching

The literature has reported that blended learning approaches lead to some measure of improvement in clinical skills such as history taking and clinical reasoning

his is here, and these are the ways that you will benefit from it.

flipped classroom approach

also that they can download the app

The importance of faculty development in the process of implementing learning technologies was highlighted in this section

participate influence participants’ implementatio

sometimes a little bit embarrassing to admit that I can’t do it

hat’s all that I tried, and I got such a fright that I stopped... So again, for fear of wasting time and embarrassment, rather leave it.

Bandura (1997)

perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEOU) (Davis

and teaching is a smaller part of it

ecause it’s always like the tenth thing that you have to squeeze in for the day

I'm a doctor, not a teacher

and then they can come back

opinion that blended learning could be useful by including the online component of blended learning to prepare students but keep the best features of face-to-face to teach students clinical skills

that not all technologies are able to facilitate

is not suitable for a practical subject where skills and knowledge need to be demonstrated and applied

There was a feeling that some learning can only be facilitated in a face-to-face setting with the student in the clinical are

because they can engage with me after the interaction and ask questions, because often after a delivery of an interaction workshop, tutorial, lecture, I have that group that comes and stands next to me and I know, okay. That’s the time that I appreciate most, because now immediately I know whether I have pitched what I said at the right level, based on the questions that I'm confronted with

You see, now I have to type that feedback, whereas I would prefer to have spoken that feedback to them

which technology cannot necessarily provide

I only have one week, so I have to get it right [master the tool] in that one week

et the student to watch a video beforehand, read an article online before, and then you go to class and then you can just facilitate, they contribute a lot more

That’s also a form of blended learning,

UNLearn courses is like a garden. It needs constant attendance. So it’s a large amount of work to do it, and once it’s done, it doesn't require that much work to tweak it and fiddle with it, but it needs constant work.

teachers

happy about taking my phone and reading it there and then ... when the question is there, you stop there and then and you Google it.

ecause we find that they don't engage with it until the last minute. So the consistency of the availability of content on SUNLearn far supersedes what I can do in a class

students have more than one opportunity of getting to it

optimised contact time,

I have a contact session on a certain subject, I will provide them with resources, and an activity to do, maybe a quiz or a discussion, or some form of task that they have to complete, just to make sure that they have prepared well for the face-to-face contact, that I don't spend the first 20 minutes of a 40 minute session just rehashing old information

think it means using various technologies to assist learning

suppose it’s including more than one sort of approach to the whole aspect of learning, more than just the old traditional standing in front of the classroom method, but actually more a combination of approaches. So, different approaches, different technologies basically

CONCLUSION

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

articulating my personal view

remain unbiase

To ensure reflexivity and limit subjectivity (Lewis, 2000), I had to set aside my own perceptions and opinions about blended learning to ensure that they did not influence the findings of the study.

Audio recordings were then deleted and transcriptions were saved on my password-protected computer

that

that

Some teachers implement blended learning approaches in the form of video tutorials and e-tivities

A qualitative research design is based on the interpretative paradigm (Nieuwenhuis, 2016) and was selected in this study in an attempt to understand and capture participants’ lived experiences through the investigation of their behaviour. This research design enabled me to report on how individuals understand and interpret the world and how they construct meaning from their personal experience

owever, interpretivism has not only strengths, but also limitations. Mack (2010) refers to ontological views as subjective rather than objective, which I soon realised because of my own interest in and belief about blended learning

intentionally

CONCLUSION

Confidence implies competence

Therefore, it could be argued that belief regarding the usefulness of technologies could lead to change and ultimately the actual use of digital technologies in teaching and learning.

Some teachers might believe that their traditional way of transmitting knowledge to students is still the best (Owens, 2012). These pedagogical beliefs can determine whether teachers will implement technologies or not (Judson, 2006; Owens, 2012).

It is probably fair to say that the amount of time spent preparing the online component of blended learning is influenced considerably by the experience, knowledge and skills of the teacher.

lthough some studies might argue that creating blended learning materials could take longer to prepare than traditional teaching, other studies argue that preparing for online teaching takes less time than typical face-to-face teaching preparation

It is clear from Bandura’s theory that individuals have the capacity to make their own choices and that several factors influence these choices

control stress impair their leve

Self-efficacy is defined by Bandura as people’s “judgment of their capabilities to organise and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances. It is concerned not with the skills one has but with judgments of what one can do with whatever skills one possesses” (Bandura, 1986:391). In other words, self-efficacy refers to the belief in one’s own ability to perform a task or behaviour (Bandura, 1997), influencing how we think, what we believe and how we conduct ourselves.

n order to determine behavioural intention in a new innovation, Venkatesh and Davis (2000) refer to two key belief constructs to examine: perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEOU), which are the predictors of users’ attitudes towards using digital technologies. Consequently, attitude depicts the intention to use digital technologies, which affects actual use.

TAM is based on Fishbein and Ajzen’s theory of reasoned action (TRA), which offers a theoretical perspective that explains human conduct and the significance of one’s beliefs in order to anticipate behaviour (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1975).

This section will focus on the technology acceptance model (TAM) (Davis et al., 1989) and the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) (Ajzen, 1985). The commonality in these theories (TAM, TPB and SCT) will then be discussed. These three perspectives provide a theoretical foundation for understanding the individual’s reactions in the integration of digital technologies in teaching and learning. While TAM and TPB focus exclusively on teachers’ beliefs about digital technologies, SCT focuses on the teachers’ behaviour.

Social cognitive theory

Bandura (1986:18) suggests that these three factors, namely the person, the behaviour and the environment are “all inseparably entwined to create learning in an individual”

rovides a better understanding of human behaviour

heories such as the theory of reasoned action (TRA) (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975) were drawn on, which initiated one of the most well-known theories in technology adoption, namely the technology acceptance model (TAM) (Davis, Bagozzi & Warshaw, 1989), which will be discussed later in this chapter. In the early 1990s, researchers started using social cognitive theory (SCT) (Bandura, 1986) when they realised the importance and relevance of self-efficacy in the adoption of digital technologies

Technology readiness and digital literacy contribute to students’ experience of technology strategies in teaching and learnin

influences their need to self-direct their learning and discover information

a leader teaching scholar

knowledge deliver

We don’t know what the technology of human level intelligence is going to look like, so we can’t estimate how hard it is going to be to achieve.

No matter how much we improve on our basic architecture of our current AI over the next 100 years, we are just not going to get there. We’re going to need to invent something else. Rockets. To be sure, the technologies used in airplanes and rockets are not completely disjoint. But rockets are not just over developed heavier than air flying machines. They use a different set of principles, equations, and methodologies.

No modern airplane engine works at all like those of 1903 or even 1920. Deep Learning, too, will be replaced over time. It will seem quaint, and barely viable in retrospect. And woefully energy inefficient.

First, there is tremendous potential for our current version of AI. It will have enormous economic, cultural, and geopolitical impact. It will change life for ordinary people over the next many decades. It will create great riches for some. It will lead to different world views for many. Like heavier than air flight it will transform our world in ways in which we can not yet guess.

The word florilegium literally means a gathering of flowers — flos (flowers) and legere (to gather).

keep, share, and remix ideas

thinking about moving from a static medium like marks on paper to a dynamic medium with computational responsiveness infused into it, that can actually participate in the thinking process

doctor

fields

isn't

I also feed forward the result of my learning in different ways that way I get feedback and criticism and the cycle starts again

We should all spend more time thinking about the prospect of failure and what we might do about it.

Browsing the extension store feels more like going to a local flea market than going to a supermarket

website developers and extension authors

I can start assembling my own personalized way of using my computer

By installing four different Gmail extensions that modify everything from the visual design to the core functionality, in some sense, I’ve put together my own email client

On smartphone and desktop platforms, this sort of behavior ranges from unusual to impossible, but in the browser it’s an everyday activity

How can we as a community of scholars facilitate this work? How can a scholar or pedagogue make an article, an assignment, a syllabus, a book, a database, or a website available for others in a manner that makes it easy for another to rework and redeploy? Putting a PDF on a website is not enough, even for materials of moderate complexity. We need tools that make it relatively easy to put the ideology of liberal education into practice, from the simple class assignment to the multimedia textbook. One such tool is GitHub

Where liberally minded scholars and pedagogues are seeking to create and curate human knowledge in a way that is more open, accessible, and valuable to the human community, we have a useful model in the open-source movement.

critical pedagogy

Following the model of open-source software, we can enter our ideas and expressions into public discourse

We are unapologetic tinkerers who neither invent the wheel, nor are satisfied with the wheels already at our disposal. The best scholarship and the best pedagogy take the best of what already exists and make it better, at least better for the task at hand. We need to embrace this identity as hackers, acknowledge our indebtedness to those who have gone before us, forsake the illusion that we are creating (can create, should create) something wholly original, but also refuse to take for granted the things that have been passed down to us.

Academic research and teaching often necessitate manipulation, re-creation, breaking, rebuilding, etc. This “manipulation, re-creation, breaking, rebuilding” — in other words, hacking

The open stream means the reading, note-taking, reflecting, developing ideas, and publishing process is a continuous repeating cycle. Not a linear pipeline.Instead of reading a whole book. Then importing the notes. Then highlighting and reflecting on them. Then crafting a summary. Then uploading the "finished work" to the internet, I instead do all of those at once. In very small chunks.

A blogpost from a year ago and one from last month turned out to be dealing with the same notions, and I remember them both, but hadn’t yet perceived them as a sequence or as the later post being a possible answer to the earlier post.

Only doing responsive writing based on daily RSS feed input feels too empty in comparison

This in order to build a better thinking aid, by having an easy accessible collection of my own ideas and concepts, and interesting viewpoints and perspectives of others (and references). It isn’t about collecting factual info.

There are other functions I won’t use because they do not fit my system. For instance it is possible to publish your Obsidian vault publicly online (at publish.obsidian.md, here’s a random example), and some do. To me that is unthinkable: my notes are an extension of my thinking and a personal tool. They are part of my inner space. Publishing is a very different thing, meant for a different audience (you, not me), more product than internal process. At most I can imagine having separate public versions of internal notes, but really anything I publish in a public digital garden is an output of my internal digital garden. Obviously I’d want to publish those through my own site, not through an Obsidian controlled domain.

This allows me to for instance in a client conversation have my task list for that project, notes from our previous conversation as well as in-depth notes about the work, all in one overview, next to the file in which I’m taking notes from the ongoing meeting itself. While in parallel to all that I still have the ability to pull all kinds of other information or conceptual description during the meeting. This allows me to quickly bring up things in high detail, and easily switch between high-level and low-level things, organisational aspects and the topic at hand etc.

Scientific articles and other documents I keep in Zotero, and from my notes I reference the Zotero entry.

I notice a rising need with myself for higher quality material as input.

Next to actual output, I pull together Notions, and sometimes Notes in what I call ’emergent outlines’ (Söhnke Ahrens in his book about Zettelkasten calls them speculative outlines, I like emergence better than speculation as a term).

progressive summarising

I spin out notes and potential Notions from my project notes, as I encounter things in my work where some idea or thought jumps out. Those potential Notions I put in a folder called proto notions, inside my GotFP

If you look at the same graph with distance 2, the layer of additionally visible nodes show how my new Notion might be connected to things like online identity, using the environment to store memory and layered access to information. This triggers additional thoughts during the writing process.

Usually while writing a Notion, I show the graph of how it connects to other Notions/Notes alongside it. I set the graph to show not only the 1st level links, as that only shows the links already apparent from the text I have in front of me. I set it to show 3 steps out at the start, and reduce to two steps when there are more links.

The ideas-greenhouse holds ideas I have, ideas that seem like something that can be put to action more or less quickly. They may be connected to notes in the other two folders, or to notes in the project folders. An example would be, that I jotted down the idea of making a digital garden for my company two months ago, triggered by a posting on how a community should have its governance documented in combination with having reread the communication handbook of Basecamp while thinking about remote working. It has since morphed into building a collective memory, and turned into a budding internal website documenting the first few things.

Notions, Notes, Ideas and work notes

resources written down with the context added of how I found them and why I was interested

As they are more conceptual than factual I started calling them Notions to distinguish them from the other more general resource Notes

They can be linked to Ideas, Notes or Notions, or may give rise to them, but they serve a purpose firmly rooted in ongoing work. They are always placed within the context, and folder, of a specific project

The system works for me because it combines those two things and has them interact: My internal dialogue is all about connected ideas and factoids, whereas doing activities and completing projects is more hierarchical in structure.