Taking Notes By Andy Sporring - Issue #58

June 18, 2022

This past week I have been focusing on the coming Podcast, and we soon have an episode to publish. But I have also drilled into the Notetaking, Second Brain/PKM world again. I published a longer writeup about that on Medium; see here under My recent articles.

One of my favorite authors, James Clear, has this clever posts on his blog, and I just had to share this one:

Keep your daily actions small. Strive to get 1% better every day.

Keep your daily mindset big. Think about how you can play a bigger game.

Start small, but never dream small.

#OnMyReadingList

I'm about 1/3 in Tiago Forte's book "Building a Second Brain" right now, my aim is to have it finished next week.

My Recent Article

This article has been growing in me for the past year; I have been thinking a lot about how my philosophy shapes the way I think, create, and make notes in my PKM. And that’s an excellent beginning…

Six Links I Find Interesting.

Something just happened in the news. A new company just went public. A big movie is about to hit theaters. Elon Musk just Tweeted a meme and it’s going viral. Writers who want to go viral are…

Farnham Street Blog is one of the best blogs out there. And it's at the same level as Nesslabs. I try to read everything that they publish there, at least the free stuff.

Grasping this concept and applying it to what you’re doing is the key to accomplishing anything. Focus on a small but critical part of the task that moves you forward. Execute. Repeat. The logic is simple but not simplistic.

Train your brain to retain knowledge and insight better by understanding how you (actually) learn. Once you understand the keys to learning, everything changes—from the way you ask questions to the way you consume information.

I accidentally missed canceling my subscription to The New Yorker, so now I have it for the next year. But now I'm glad I did as there has been a couple of really good articles there lately.

Fourteen years ago, Kevin Kelly famously proposed that an artist could make a living online with a thousand true fans. Has time proved him correct?

Anne-Laure Le Cunff is one of the most intelligent and brilliant writers out there. I read everything she writes, and there's so much wisdom and knowledge that she shares. She is also the founder of Nesslabs.

It started as a measure of efficiency for the production of goods and services. Somehow, along the way, many of us have become addicted to productivity.

Hermeneutics deals with interpretation. When we interpret a text, it's not linear: it’s a cycle, which is called the hermeneutic circle.

Things & Stuff

This was a truly crazy audition! (Note: Turn DOWN the volume!!)

Not The End, But....

My best Essay the past week: