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#85: Tiago Forte joins Chris to talk about his proven method to build a "Second Brain" to organize your digital life. They discuss the best tools to use to collect and store information, why it's important to become more of a maker than a consumer, why the most common way people categorize information might not be the best and a lot more.Tiago Forte (@fortelabs) is one of the world's foremost experts on productivity. His cohort-based courses teach people around the world how timeless principles and the latest technology can revolutionize their productivity, creativity, and personal effectiveness. Tiago's book is Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative PotentialFull show notes at: https://allthehacks.com/second-brain-tiago-forte Partner Deals Vuori: 20% off the most comfortable performance apparel I've ever wornMasterClass: Learn from the world's best with 15% offFabric: Affordable term life insurance for you and your familyDaffy: Donate for a chance to increase your contribution by $100 - $10,000 Selected Links From The EpisodeConnect with Tiago Forte: Website | Instagram | TwitterTiago Forte's BookBuilding a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative PotentialResources MentionedYour Resource Guide to Building a Second BrainSecond Brain Case Study: Sleep Training an InfantEvernote Mobile AppReadwiseZapierNotion TwletsOtter.ai AirrMiroProcreateCommand EApple FilesThingsArt of AccomplishmentAssemblyAIFree Shipt Membership with Visa CardsGetting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free ProductivityWayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the WorldDream Studio Course Full Show NotesIntroduction to Tiago Forte (00:00)How it all started (01:49)The three-part arc people go through as they build their Second Brain (02:43)Changing the focus from finding content to making things and using technology more effectively (05:04)The Four Steps of CODE (09:14)Capture: Saving 1% of the most insightful idea, quotes, takeaways, and thoughts (10:47)Capture tools (17:00)Tools to search across all of your saved information (26:09)Distinguishing between business and personal life mode in your organizational categories (28:39)The optimal way to organize your information (30:23)Tiago Forte's PARA method: Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives (33:33) How to begin implementing the PARA method today (37:32)Organizing your email inboxes (38:23)Types of information to offload or to keep (45:32)Doing/acting vs. rote memorization (47:34)Thinking about your First Brain: primary use cases (49:04)Tiago's acknowledgment hack (52:36)The role AI plays in our Second Brain (55:18)Tiago's Mexico City recommendation (57:36) PartnersVuoriVuori is a new and fresh perspective on performance apparel. 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Today I'm talking about a supercharged strategy for note-taking, because as a builder your lifeblood is information. It's heavily inspired by David Perell who developed a method for note-taking called The Information Capture Process. Also big thanks to Tiago Forte and his amazing Progressive Summarization technique.
If you've enjoyed our past content on Getting Things Done, and you're looking ways to improve and/or simplify your organization system, this show is for you! Guest: Alex Bell was the teenager I had mind when I first started this whole School Sucks project. Struggling through school and variety of personal challenges, he was the kind of person I hoped to reach. He discovered School Sucks Podcast in 2009, when the show was about three months old, and he has been a listener since then. He then became a supporter, and then a contributor, and now even an advisor. We first connected in Salem, MA in 2017, and since then we've become very close friends. So today Alex is back in an advisory role, to help me look at some ways to implement Tiago Forte's "Building A Second Brain" organization and productivity system. We'll talk about what we've already done, and how much further I should go. We do an overview of the entire methodolgy, but then we'll focus in on two of the key concepts: PARA (projects, areas, resources, archive) and Progressive Summarization (for creating more actionable and accessible notes). strong>Related Shows: SSP Productivity Month! (January 2016) Presence and Productivity Series Skipping College Isn’t Easy – With Alex Bell [PODCAST #582] Music: "Nemesis" The Motet "Simple As..." Kid Cudi The downloadable version of The Ideas Into Action Summit is now available. Visit sspuniversity.com/ideasintoaction to learn more about the presenters, topics, bonus materials and encore presentation. Please Support School Sucks We do cool things! Thanks to your support. School Sucks is one of the longest running liberty-minded podcasts on the web, and the only one completely devoted to the issue of education (versus public school and college). Your support keeps the show going and growing, which keeps us at the top of the options for education podcasts and leads to new people discovering our work. Please help us continue to spread this important message further! Before you do anything, please bookmark and use this link for your Amazon shopping: Shop With Us One-Time Donation Options: Paypal/Venmo; Donate DASH Donate ETHEREUM Donate LITECOIN Donate BITCOIN Donate BITCOIN CASH Donate ZCASH Recurring Options: NEW! SubscribeStar Access our personal development bonus show, The Discomfort Zone, and lots of other irreverent and acerbic commentary you've never heard before. Support Us On PATREON Help incentivize our production! Pledge $1 per content item and access dozens of Patron only audios and videos. Join the A/V Club If you're looking for more School Sucks content, the A/V Club option grants you access to a bonus content section with 400+ hours of exclusive audio and video. If you are a regular consumer of our media, please consider making a monthly commitment by selecting the best option for you... A/V Club - Basic Access - $8.00/Month A/V Club - "Advanced" Access - $12.00/Month Sigma Sigma Pi - "Privileged" Access - $16.00/Month Crypto Addresses: DASH; XcZfPP6GZGVo9VKViNBVJZja5JVxZDB229 ETHEREUM; 0x3c5504CE3401C028832173506fa30BD4db4b7D35 LITECOIN; LKNp24f5wwvZ2QzeDbvxXgBxyVwi1yXnu2 BITCOIN; 1KhwY836cfSGCK5aaGFv8Q7PHMgghFJn1U BITCOIN CASH 1AmqLVxjw3Lp9KT5ckfvsqfN2Hn3B1hCWS ZCASH; t1by1ZGJ63LoLSjXy27ooJtipf4wMr7qbu4
Maggie and swyx hosted a Clubhouse chat this weekend on Digital Gardens. Here are show notes for ongoing conversations so you can dig in further! Maggie's garden: https://maggieappleton.com/ Swyx's garden: https://www.swyx.io/ideas, http://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy (and other repos) Comments and extra questions welcome!## RecordingYouTube Recording Here and Commentable Transcript is Here!This podcast audio was automatically edited for pauses and filler words via Descript. It gets a little choppy about 45mins in, but otherwise seems ok?## Things we talked about Nikita's Everything I Know garden: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/ Maggie's list of Digital Gardeners: https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners Penn Course on the Literature of Success: https://apps.wharton.upenn.edu/syllabi/?course=LGST227 Devon Zuegel on Epistemic Statuses: https://devonzuegel.com/post/epistemic-statuses-are-lazy-and-that-is-a-good-thing Digital Garden Terms of Service: https://www.swyx.io/digital-garden-tos Neil Postman: The Medium is the Metaphor: https://people.wou.edu/~visuanod/visuano_amusing_ourselves_to_death.pdf Amusing Ourselves to Death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death Building A Second Brain: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ Andy Matuschak: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes Gatsby Theme Andy: https://github.com/aravindballa/gatsby-theme-andy Transclusion: https://maggieappleton.com/transcopyright-dreams Nonlinear tools for thought: Roam of course :) Muse App https://museapp.com/ Kosmik App https://lithium.paris/ Google Docs as Collaborative Digital Gardens Chris Paik's Frameworks Google Doc (tweet, doc) has ongoing comments that help shape the garden Swyx on Webmentions: https://www.swyx.io/twitter-metacommentary/ Swyx Three Strikes Rule: https://www.swyx.io/three-strikes/ Tiago Forte on Progressive Summarization: https://fortelabs.co/blog/progressive-summarization-a-practical-technique-for-designing-discoverable-notes/ Drawing tools: https://excalidraw.com/, https://miro.com/, https://figma.com/ How To Create Luck: https://swyx.io/create_luck Lisa Hardy's Hyperfine Village concept
En el episodio de esta semana Camilo (@elcamilosoy) y Matias (@matiasfha) conversan sobre Generalistas vs Especialistas.¿Deberías apuntar a saber de todo un poco, o convertirte en un experto en una área específica de tu trabajo, apuntando a un nicho bien definido? Ésta pregunta la exploran desde su propia experiencia poniendo ambas posturas en una balanza.Además, en la sección Qué aprendimos esta semana nos traen:Camilo no quería defraudar, así que siguió con la temática gastronómica en este espacio y nos contó algunos de sus tips para las mejores Costillas BBQ en casa.Matias por su parte nos contó sobre cómo hacer cocadas fáciles y rápidas para sus hijos, y por si fuera poco también nos habló de una metodología que empezó a aplicar recientemente en su vida llamada "Progressive Summarization".Progressive SummarizationBuilding a second brainMúsicaBackground Music By bensound.comOpening and Closing Music:Stepping Out By Cory ClarkPerformed By Crack SkippyLink: https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/9907
Tiago Forte, author, speaker, teacher, and productivity expert, joined me for this episode of the Real World Productivity podcast to cover a wide range of topics where we covered everything from mindset shifts needed for increased productivity to the tools he uses on a daily basis (his “stack”). If you’re serious about increasing your knowledge base, easing your access to valuable information now AND later, and wondering what it takes to make sure you can take baseline productivity higher and higher - this is the episode for you! We had a great time covering these topics as well as his reasons for creating and implementing courses like Building A Second Brain and so much more. I won’t spoil it all for you - I highly recommend listening to the podcast episode and checking out Tiago’s blog afterwards. Listen to this week’s show and learn: What sorts of mindset shift propel you along increasing productivity How “real” is shiny object syndrome and how it affects productivity Where learning outside of your specialty can boost all areas of learning Check out the full post and more here: https://productivity.academy/news/episode-30-building-yourself-better-faster-with-the-right-mindsets-with-tiago-forte/ Mentioned in the episode The Rise Of The Full Stack Freelancer: https://praxis.fortelabs.co/the-rise-of-the-full-stack-freelancer-c14a375445d9/ Progressive Summarization: https://praxis.fortelabs.co/progressive-summarization-a-practical-technique-for-designing-discoverable-notes-3459b257d3eb/ Just In Time Project Management: https://praxis.fortelabs.co/series/just-in-time-project-management/ Building A Second Brain: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ Busy Cal - https://productivity.academy/busycal Evernote - https://productivity.academy/evernote Things - https://productivity.academy/things Super Human - https://productivity.academy/superhumanemail Notion - https://productivity.academy/notion Hours Tracker - https://productivity.academy/hourstracker Loom - https://productivity.academy/loom Zoom - https://productivity.academy/zoom --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/productivityacademy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/productivityacademy/support
In this conversation Tom Murray and I explore Tom’s model of ‘Wisdom Skills’. In this model Wisdom Skills are made up of both the movement of complexification and development (ascending), and the movement of simplicity and subtraction (descending). We explore the relationship between simplicity and complexity in the development of wisdom, sort out some confusions about the relationship between spirituality and human development, why spiritual teachers ‘do bad things’, why development without deconstruction is problematic, why spirituality is more ‘down and in’ rather than ‘up and out’, how deconstruction releases complexity and opens possibility, why development is dangerous without spiritual clarity, and how this model allows us to talk bout spiritual realization without unnecessary metaphysical claims. To read a draft of Tom's work in progress on the "wisdom skills" material we discussed. send him an email at tommurray.us@gmail.com. The title of the manuscript is "Metamodernism, Complexity, Simplicity, and Spirituality." The other paper we mentioned is "Knowing and Unknowing Reality: A Beginner's and Expert's Developmental Guide to Post-Metaphysical Thinking" (here) Tom's Wisdom Skills Model (image) and Progressive Summarization of his Metaphysics Paper Other links to Toms work include: Tom's home page: www.tommurray.us A list of Tom's papers: www.perspegrity.com The StageLens technology for developmental assessment: www.stagelens.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/emerge/support
Wacky Brainstorm on Progressive Summarization to Wealth.
Wacky Brainstorm on Progressive Summarization to Wealth.
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” Albert Einstein No books today, but a selected list of questions asked by Listeners! Neil and Nat answer one by one detailed questions about topics you had but they never talked about. We cover a wide range of topics, including: What Neil and Nat do to survive Routines to get into flow Favorite podcast show and why they stopped listening to Tim Ferriss The future (and present of work) Balancing power and happiness And much more. Please enjoy, and be sure to ask more questions replying the mailing list! (What? You still haven’t signed up for the mailing list?!) If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check out our episode on Daily Rituals by Mason Currey, a book that discuss the crazy schedule creative people have to get into the flow, as well as our episode on Homo Deus by Yuval Harari where we talk about how AI may make humans useless. Be sure to join our mailing list to find out about what books are coming up, giveaways we're running, special events, and more. Links from the Episode Mentioned in the show Unlimited Brewing [4:22] Made You Drink Beer. Coming Soon? [5:14] US regulation doesn't allow to sell beer online [5:14] Brewmaster’ Reserve, Neil’s beer blog [5:49] Neil Soni on Nat Chat [6:40] LegalZoom [8:45] Maryland Government incorporation website [8:47] Incorporate.com [9:51] W-2 Form [10:52] Nat Chat [11:22] Growth Machine [11:47] Nat's personal site [12:15] Wendy’s Twitter campaign [16:52] Deep House Relax playlist [27:56] Asana [33:03] Evernote [33:12] Sam Sheridan [36:42] Fat Tony [40:05] PwC [52:33] Tiago Forte’s Progressive Summarization [55:05] Flatgeologist [57:32] Slack [1:04:02] Vitalik Buteron, founder of Ethereum [1:10:53] Nat’s articles on sex [1:14:21] Stamena app - Nat’s app [1:14:21] Black Mirror [1:38:46] Trump-Miller story [1:41:55] Books mentioned Daily Rituals by Mason Currey [28:59] (Nat’s Notes) (book episode) Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Taleb [32:21] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand [37:58] Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennet [38:07] (book episode) The Goal [44:29] (Nat’s Notes) (book episode) Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter [37:58] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Homo Deus by Yuval Harari [43:20] (book episode) Work Clean [44:29] (Nat’s Notes) (book episode) Principles [44:33] (Nat’s Notes) (book episode) The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene [46:30] (Nat’s Notes) Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb [48:12] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins [57:13] Finite and Infinite Games [57:42] (Nat’s Notes) (Made You Think episode) 12 Rules for Life by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson [58:06] (Nat’s notes) (Neil’s notes) (book episode) East of Eden by John Steinbeck [58:48] (Nat’s notes) Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk [59:22] (Nat’s notes) Deep Work by Cal Newport [1:03:01] (Nat’s notes) So Good They Can’t Ignore You [1:03:01] (Nat’s notes) Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault [1:10:10] (Nat’s Notes) (book episode) The Sovereign Individual [1:19:29] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Mastery by Robert Greene [1:28:04] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) People mentioned Albert Einstein [0:00] Donald Trump [18:28] Elon Musk [18:28] (on this podcast) Dan Bilzerian [18:33] Adil Majid [19:17] (on this podcast 1, 2, 3) Pepper the Poochon [32:54] Taylor Pearson [44:20] Nassim Nicholas Taleb [48:02] (Antifragile episode) (Skin in the Game episode) Flatgeologists – Flat Earth Society [57:32] Jeff Bezos [1:11:31] Bill Gates [1:11:31] Mark Zuckerberg [1:11:31] Warren Buffet [1:11:31] Randall Eliason [1:42:42] Show Topics 0:00 – Perfect drinks to enjoy the warm weather. 3:38 – Question #1. Why do you actually do for a living and how you've got there? Neil has a company that helps you build your brand beer, either for events (weddings, parties, conference, etc), venues (chef that wants to pair beers), and already established brands. How Neil bootstrapped his company while trying to have reduce his home brewing costs, and even before having customers. If you ask enough, you can see the Made You Drink beer soon. “You don't know where things are going to go until you actually start working on them”. 8:20 – Nat helps ecommerce and tech startups appear on the front page of Google and increase traffic from Google through SEO and content. Stats of his company. 1428 – Funny fact, Nat and Neil went to the same university in Pittsburg, and went through the same Startup Accelerator, but never met before. Why Twitter is the catalyst for the best friendships, and why it's so hard to monetize it. Paying twice to build and reach your audience on Facebook. Who controls Twitter and Facebook celebrities' accounts. 19:58 – Question #2. Favorite podcasts. Mentioned Jocko Podcast Joe Rogan Experience Sam Harris’ Waking Up Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History Invest Like the Best podcast History on Fire Unchained A16z Kevin Rose Shane Parrish’s The Knowledge Project Rhonda Patrick’s Found my Fitness Bill Simmons Podcast Skip and Shannon: Undisputed Podcast Good Beer Hunting Brewers' Journal Podcast Episodes: Jordan Peterson on Joe Rogan’s, Daniele Bolelli from the Drunken Taoist on Joe Rogan’s, Jordan Peterson's Biblical Series, Al Pacino and Kevin Durant on Bill Simmons’. Recommended Tim Ferriss Episodes: Jamie Foxx, Jocko Willink, The Erotic Playbook of a Top-Earning Sex Worker (NSFW), Naval Ravikant, Peter Thiel, Dom D’Agostino, Kevin Rose, Kelly Starrett, Derek Sivers, Kevin Kelly, Ed Cooke 27:56 – Question #3. Routines to get into flow, specially If you need to write a 2-3000 words blog post. How much coffee Neil needs to get into flow. Neil's realization to keep going until getting a decent piece of work. The playlist to get into the mood. Nat tips: making super easy to start, getting all notifications off, being super clear on what are the next steps, changing context. The template Nat use for writing a massive article, and why he doesn’t starts with the intro. The endure-for-20min-and-then-you-can-quit psychological trick. Being in-interruptible. 28:18 – Question #4. Is doing business an intellectual challenging activity? What if it is not? The overlap of intellectually curious people and entrepreneurs. Early days of a business are very intellectual and exploration, while growth stage is a lot tweaking and optimization. Why intellectual people have the need to compulsively start new companies. Books that coincided with the business stage. How to find motivation to start exploring. 48:23 – Question #5. Advice for college student graduating in 2018? What problems to work on? First thing: think before graduating. Find an internship that has the potential to get you full time, in an area you are interested in. The problem with Ivy League students going to Google, Facebook or big consulting firms. Realize how low risk your life is. Focusing on skills rather than problems. The awareness that you may not know what problems are out there. 55:05 – Question #6. How do you apply the insights from books? Start a podcast and speak with your friends every week :). How Nat takes detailed notes "reading" the book 4 times. Writing as an exercise to build the synopsis with other books' concepts. No need to change the structure of your business. New concepts are useful to see problems from different angles, not overhauling processes. 59:39 – Question #7. How to network online? Tips to connect through the most powerful platforms, Twitter and cold email. 1:02:59 – Question #8. Future of Work: Deep Work vs Shallow Work, solopreneurship, and attention deficit, etc. Trade off between Improved communication and increased interruptibility. The problem with open office workspaces. Trends: remote working, polarization of work between employees and contractors, performance based work environment. Before, power was a function of the organizational structure or buildings, now it's a function of ability or what you do, because it's much easier to show usefulness. 1:13:20 – Single person companies that make over $1 million a year. Personal branding. Having proof of concept on our own site. 1:14:21 – Nat’s proof of concept that you can have 1 person business based on SEO. How Nat arrived to get 8k daily visitors by chance writing sex articles. 1:19:00 – More trends about work: It will be possible for fewer people to do more. The Internet as the effect of compounding of technology. AI is starting to replace White collar jobs. How AI would be able to replace the 90% of the writing work right now. 1:28:04 – Question #9. Is there a trade off between happiness and achievement? Does a gain in power detract from happiness? The Internet gives us the ability to compare us to the whole world, in detriment of the in-group. Opportunity costs of least profitable ventures. The problem with Digital Nomadism. Considering second and third order effects in the happiness-power equation. The intersection between personal achievement and service to the community. What's happiness anyway? Doing sacrifices for achieving joy, as athletes do. 1:43:00 – Sponsors! Get new questions through the email list. Sign up. Find upcoming books, events, and know about new sponsors! A new cool sponsor coming. Hop on Four Sigmatic for their mushroom coffee and other mush wonderful goodness. Suggestion: enjoy an iced mushroom coffee Mocha flavor. 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Tiago Forte is a wealth of knowledge. He draws on his background in design and technology to help knowledge workers apply design thinking to day-to-day productivity challenges. In this episode, Tiago and I discuss the PARA method to organizing your reference material. In this episode we cover: What Evernote is and why to use it instead of other note-taking apps. Evernote is a database Evernote has been around long enough to have strong, foundational capabilities. PARA File Organization Structure Projects - Any and all those things that need to get done within the next few weeks or months that require more than one action step to complete. Areas - Ongoing aspects of your life that you are committed to meeting performance standards of. Resources - Ongoing interests Archives - Any other category that is no longer active Progressive Summarization 5% of your notes are more valuable than the rest Wander and explore Every time you touch a note, improve it and make it slightly more discoverable for your future self Summarize it - emphasize the most important, relevant information Summarize the summarizations You can scale the amount of attention that you pay- according to how relevant the source is to your projects Quotables: "When you have everything at your fingertips- you can start to see connections between things that would not be apparent if your information was stuck in files. " "Evernote is one of the more personal apps…..It’s your own thinking, your own ideas, your own brainstorms, your musings, your journal entries, your work in progress. All the messiness you don’t necessarily show the world, you keep in an app like this." "Define projects much smaller than you are used to” “Once each little piece has its own value, you can put them together in different structures.” “In one glance, at the 5th or 6th level of summarization, you can get the gist of en entire book in one instance.” "Using a system in every place that you have files eliminates the cognitive burden of switching from one organizing scheme to another." Links and resources mention: Article on PARA method TextExpander and Writing Automation with Greg Scown TextExpander Sexy Evernote Settings with Stacy Harmon Radical Productivity - Evernote PowerUsers Course by Stacy Harmon James Clear - Book Summaries Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse Things Zack's Kanban training Connect with Tiago: fortelabs.co Twitter LinkedIn Clarity FM buildingasecondbrain.com Free Training Next Week! This short Kanban training (25 mins) was created to show you how to get more control over your work and all the demands on your time. The control comes from Kanban’s unique ability to make your work visible. The free training streams live at two times this Friday, July 14. See Recorded Training + Enroll In a Free Kanban Course Here. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Overcast, PocketCast or your favorite podcast player. It’s easy, you’ll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure. The shownotes can be found at zacharysexton.com/23