Feynman: “He opened a fresh notebook. On the title page he wrote: NOTEBOOK OF THINGS I DON’T KNOW ABOUT. For the first but not last time he reorganized his knowledge. He worked for weeks at disassembling each branch of physics, oiling the parts, and putting them back together, looking all the while for the raw edges and inconsistencies. He tried to find the essential kernels of each subject.”
Workflowy is stupendous for this due to how easy it is to rearrange your ontology on the fly. I tried something similar to the above in several areas and it caused a level up. Not just in the object level areas I tried it in, there was a level up in the meta process.
I was thinking of “systems I use to organize my life” very broadly, not just in terms of building one’s ontologies (though that’s also something I’ve been thinking about lately, and I’m going to look into workflowy). Things like how have I designed the basic structure of my days, how does my calendar get used, in what contexts will I take notes, how do I manage habits.
A blanket productivity recommendation might be, “Implement GTD”. I’m imagining a guide that would offer a process that one could use to determine what parts of their life could benefit from systematization, and how to design, test, and tweak systems so that you end up with one’s that work for you.
Feynman: “He opened a fresh notebook. On the title page he wrote: NOTEBOOK OF THINGS I DON’T KNOW ABOUT. For the first but not last time he reorganized his knowledge. He worked for weeks at disassembling each branch of physics, oiling the parts, and putting them back together, looking all the while for the raw edges and inconsistencies. He tried to find the essential kernels of each subject.”
Workflowy is stupendous for this due to how easy it is to rearrange your ontology on the fly. I tried something similar to the above in several areas and it caused a level up. Not just in the object level areas I tried it in, there was a level up in the meta process.
I was thinking of “systems I use to organize my life” very broadly, not just in terms of building one’s ontologies (though that’s also something I’ve been thinking about lately, and I’m going to look into workflowy). Things like how have I designed the basic structure of my days, how does my calendar get used, in what contexts will I take notes, how do I manage habits.
A blanket productivity recommendation might be, “Implement GTD”. I’m imagining a guide that would offer a process that one could use to determine what parts of their life could benefit from systematization, and how to design, test, and tweak systems so that you end up with one’s that work for you.
Something that worked for me and a couple others: try GTD, Marie Kondo, and YNAB, and in bouncing your attention between them notice the similarities.