Posts tagged “deep-work”
Anchored Model Layering
The time, energy, and focus required to develop a good idea are often overlooked because “having an idea” is conflated with the euphoric moment of first glimpsing what the idea might be. This eureka moment rarely means that you have the idea. Instead, it means you were given a direction to work in to earn the idea.
Supercharging Long Thinking: What Cal Newport's Notebook Method Leaves Out
Long thinking is a term coined by Giovanni Corazza and picked up by Cal Newport. According to Cal Newport, long thinking is the persistent and intentional application of thought toward a specific issue, problem, or idea with the goal of creating substantial and useful new insights.
Regaining Focus With a Deep Reading Practice
I don’t understand why headlines like The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films aren’t inciting moral panics. Our ability to focus is under attack. We are losing our minds.
Stop Caring About Your Inbox
While Zettelkasten practice improves thinking outside the Zettelkasten, we’ll have to lay out a specific problem with the Zettelkasten Method: we can only think in and within our Zettelkasten when it is available. However, we are often somewhere else. Naturally, the inbox problem and its two faces arise:
The Tools That Change Us (And the Choice to Change Back)
Dear Zettlers, The last newsletter went viral. I was lucky in striking a chord that is played quite regularly. The chord is the sound of the attack on our minds. To each topic, there is a fundamental existential layer that is below layers of pragmatics and other layers.
Some Q&A on the Zettelkasten Method and Student Life
@diogenes, a student of philosophy, psychology and history in Vienna, asked some questions on the forum. I’d like to elaborate a bit on that. There will be specific use cases for the Zettelkasten Method. The method itself is a meta method of knowledge work. It translates what we understand of knowledge acquisition into basic actions that can be incorporated into any (knowledge work) workflow. Here, I will show a couple of applications to a more specific case.
Practical Integration of the Zettelkasten Method: My Deep Work Days
Fiddling with the details of IDs, and discussions about Folgezettel and whether they are an integral part of the method or just a compensatory solution for a physical Zettelkasten is fun and part of the constant improvement. But sometimes, one thing gets left behind: How to implement knowledge work into your life. This is how I do it.