Mental models

Mental models and micro frameworks I find myself coming back to.

• Like with like
• One thing well
• Has a home / Needs a home
• Now / Not now
• Waiting / Working
  (Waiting room / Working room)
• Hypernym / Hyponym
• Engage / Escape
• Explore / Exploit
• For now / For good
• Mundane / Monumental
• Hell yeah or no
• The big picture / One big thing / What’s next / Go deeper / Why it matters (via Axios)
• Similarities / Differences
• Supplement / Substitute

Keystone concepts

• Relational databases
• The Golden Stack

Taxonomy of note types

• Ephemeral scratchings in Daily working log
• Prompts and incomplete notes in writing inbox (A writing inbox for transient and incomplete notes), which are meant to possibly become Evergreen notes. These prompts may accumulate writing over time via spaced repetition (see Spaced repetition may be a helpful tool to incrementally develop inklings)
• Evergreen notes, in increasingly complex stages of development:
  • stubs
  • simple definitions for terms of art, little of my own added
    • Bridge notes narrowly relate two adjacent terms
  • precise, narrow declarative notes
    • sometimes these are framed as questions, when evidence is too inconclusive to frame sharply
  • higher-level APIs
    • notes abstracting over many other notes
    • personal terms of art
• Outline notes

Wikipedia

• Content Types: Overviews Outlines Lists Portals Glossaries Categories Indices
• Content Topics: Current events, Reference, Culture, Geography, Health, History, Mathematics, Nature, People, Philosophy, Religion, Society, Technology

Getting Things Done

Plan

1. Define purpose and principles
2. Envision outcomes
3. Brainstorm
4. Organize
5. Identify next actions

Reflect

via

Cynicism
We have a problem, but they don’t want to solve it

Pessimism We have a problem, but we can’t solve it

Optimism
We have a problem, and we can solve it

Responsibility
We have a problem. Can I help solve it?

Initiative
We have a problem. Here’s how I’m solving it