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Over the last 7 years, I've taken thousands of pages of digital notes and I built a very deliberate system about how I take notes in Google Docs.
However, recently I've become convinced we are seeing a new paradigm emerge for note-taking and growing. Notes are becoming more and more public and less private so if I had to make one prediction regarding the big shifts happening, it’d be this:
I believe that taking notes publicly will replace private notes in the next 10 years, because of:
- Cultural shift. Only a few years ago it was awkward to put your name and your picture online. The culture is now shifting towards making notes more public.
- There’s a new category of tools that make public note-sharing easy. Some of these tools are Roam, Obsidian, TiddlyWiki, Notion.
- New monetization options are emerging and people are using them more and more to monetize their knowledge.
A digital garden, which is the topic of this model, is a public repository where you share your sawdust. Here’s what Maggie Appleton, who wrote about this model, said about digital gardens:
Rather than presenting a set of polished articles, displayed in reverse chronological order, these sites act more like free form, work-in-progress wikis.
Some of the benefits of a digital garden include:
- Your notes become assets
- Build your network. You can share it with others
- Traffic from search engines
- Forcing function for learning depth
In this manual, we’ll take a deeper look into digital gardens, and the last section of the manual is a step-by-step walkthrough through one of the apps that make it possible, Notion.
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Connecting your brain with other people’s in the right way is multiplicative, not additive. Using network science research, learn how to filter who to build deep relationships with and how to rapidly build deep relationships built on mutual growth.
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Research shows that when we teach what we learn, we learn faster. This is known as the Explanation Effect and it even applies when we teach concepts to ourselves by journaling, mind mapping, or talking out loud.
When you have a good mental model that gives you a way of doing the research efficiently, one focused hour of effort can yield gems. The Knowledge Mining model shows how to do research that brings us more growth and more profit.
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When it comes to being a world-class entrepreneur or scientist, being a polymath might actually be the rule rather than the exception. Learn how to enjoy the benefits of being a polymath while avoiding the disadvantages.
A digital garden is a public repository where you share your sawdust. In this manual, we’ll take a deeper look into digital gardens and do a step-by-step walkthrough of one of the apps that make them possible.
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What should you learn next? One of the reasons this question is so difficult to answer is because the choices are literally endless. The Multiplier Skills Mental Model gives you a formula for choosing what learning hurdle to conquer next.
The Subtraction Learning Method is the mental model Success By Subtraction applied to learning. It’s one of the most useful mental models but, as it often happens, it can be challenging to apply it. That’s why we did a series of 3 classes to help you practice this method and we organized a 7-day learning challenge that you can now do on your own.
The most important skill anybody can learn is the ability to learn rare and useful skills on-demand. Across warfare, AI, learning sciences, business, philosophy and animal intelligence, there is almost the same exact loop. I call this the Learning Loop mental model, and it is the fundamental learning process of the universe.
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Selling Your Sawdust is the process of turning the by-products of your learning process that you’d normally throw away (which, in my experience, is over 90% of notes) into products that can be valuable to other people.
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The ultimate sign of mastery is being world-class in what you do automatically. This model will help you understand how to go from conscious competence to unconscious competence to leverage the power of intuition.
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We live in an age of opportunity shock—too many opportunities, too little time. This model helps you decide what to do when there’s a new opportunity that could potentially be huge but you’re busy and you don’t want to waste time pursuing a flop.
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When it comes to mastering a skill, it’s more practical to think 100 hours, not 10,000. By picking the right micro-skills and stacking them, you can reach mastery 100x faster and continue building success upon success.
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We’re discussing reinventing learning itself. What does it really mean to learn and to reinvent learning in our lives?