Regular Reveries 28: PKM, Julian Lehr, and More People Should Write
I try to write about anything interesting that happened during the week here in the intro, but really nothing interesting happened this week, and I don't want to bore you. Okay, onwards to this week's reveries!
This week’s article
I've written a long-form article about my experience with personal knowledge management (PKM) this week. I've tried to explain why, after switching six apps for PKM, I'm back to using Roam. I hope the article explains why PKM is useful, and you'll learn something from it. This is my longest article so far, and I've really enjoyed writing it.
Content candy
An episode from "The Seedtable Podcast" with Julian Lehr from Stripe was very interesting to listen to. He has some great ideas, and here are some of the most interesting:
- Twitter is the most underrated product in tech, and DMs are Twitter's shadow social network
- Everything we do is based on what other people do (mimetic theory)
- Collaborative document editing is better than having meetings
- Writing is better for thinking than speaking is since you can edit things as much as you'd like to
If any of that sounds interesting, I recommend listening to the podcast.
Something to think about
"You should write because when you know that you're going to write, it changes the way you live.
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That's the promise: you will live more curiously if you write. You will become a scientist, if not of the natural world than of whatever world you care about. More of that world will pop alive. You will see more when you look at it."
Question for you
What's the best purchase you've made this year?