What has my attention now
This page focuses on what I’m building, thinking, and writing. The ideas here are actively being tended over time. Please share your thoughts, challenges, and constructive criticisms anytime! Comment below or on Twitter @theroyaltbomb
Building
- An idea generating, knowledge building, note taking, learning system, part of which is this digital garden
- The goal of a learning system is to trigger the right memory to help us remember the most useful information at the time we need it
- Some thoughts as I iterate on my digital ecosystem
- This system helps me always have something to write about, learn in public, and build a body of work while exploring my web of thinking
- A knowledge worker’s toolkit needs to be well-rounded
- Tools for managing information overload and improving how we think are on the rise
- How I take smart notes
- Why I like Roam over Bear for improving my thinking
- Take notes in your own words while reading, watching, and thinking
- Obsidian is for tending my digital garden
- Consistency for The Refined Mind
- Send every two weeks
- Signup page: https://refinedmind.co/subscribe
- I am looking for new and meaningful projects in 2021
Thinking
- asynchronous communication is a critical component of the future of work
- capture the output of your thoughts in some way they can be remembered in the future
- think in terms of inputs and outputs to design better processes
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Sensemaking and wayfinding are critical skills for thriving in 2020 and beyond
- These skills help independent professionals
- How to build a body of work over time
- It feels like there’s a new internet being built with the principle of the early days—sharing and connecting knowledge—but with the wisdom of today, accumulated over decades of improving technology’s capabilities
- Non-linear writing’s ability to jump from sentence to sentence, idea to idea, changes the way the mind thinks through ideas
- A knowledge worker’s toolkit needs to be well-rounded
- How to process the reality, severity, and impact of what’s happening in our country and abroad, what that means for our economy and my livelihood, and from what efforts and investments am I most likely to generate income
- It’s tough to live life amid all these circumstances
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Black Lives Matter
- Learning how to evolve from “person who continuously learns and supports others” to “actively antiracist.”
- America needs to be redesigned
- America has done a terrible job taking care of its citizens
- The future is not American-led
- Am I the ‘mediocre white man’ they so often speak about?
- We have barely begun to see the effects of the fallout from this pandemic
- The goal of a learning system is to trigger the right memory to help us remember the most useful information at the time we need it
Writing
- Writing themes
- networked thinking
- Teach what you learn
- Start teaching as soon as you understand something
- asynchronous communication is a critical component of the future of work
I made this site to learn through discourse. Your thoughts here👇 or on Twitter are encouraged!
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Writing themes
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