Note-taking is the closest thing we have to time travel. It's rebellion against the entropy of memory.
Perell's writing guide: capture within ten seconds, search by full-text, write from the leftovers. The system is downstream of the habit.
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff / Ness LabsAnne-Laure Le Cunff's TEDx talk on running tiny experiments instead of chasing big goals — a reframe of productivity around curiosity, feedback loops, and the cost of being wrong.
Venkatesh Rao (Contraptions)Venkatesh Rao on the resurrection of Ribbonfarm as a museum blog with an AI curator — a meditation on ending one creative project and the strange, generative shape of what comes after.
It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness.
DFW's 2005 Kenyon speech, hosted on Farnam Street: the uncredentialed commodity is attention, not information. Twenty years on, still unanswered.