Tag: para
All the articles with the tag "para".
Defeating the Hedonic Treadmill
The hedonic treadmill, named from a 1971 study of lottery winners, explains why we snap back to a happiness baseline after good and bad alike — and how a digital second brain helps me beat it.
The Three Core Philosophies of Ideas at Play
Wouldn't it be awesome if you could remember everything you ever saw, heard, or read? Well, maybe it would not be that awesome. Still, I would really be…
Real Life Example: Building a New Game
Let me give you a real life example of how having a digital second brain helped me develop a new product, author a book, and create a groundbreaking team workshop.
Where Not What Resource Summary for EO Atlanta (and everyone else too)
The resources and overview from my Where Not What talk in Atlanta — a gentle starting point for building a second brain without drowning in someone else's system.
WNW Resources - And Some Personal History
The story of what lead me to develop a second brain, and eventually my Where Not What System. The Resources section is the heart of my personal knowledge management. Here's why.
WNW Writing with Resources
Once my Kindle highlights flowed into my notes, I had a library of ideas to fuel my writing — until I hit a wall citing sources. How Zotero and Readwise became my writing resources.
WNW Using Resources
How do I use Resources in my Where Not What System? In this post I give you a quick overview and compare Resources to Projects and Areas.
WNW Area Recap
Recap the Five Article Series that explores how I implement Areas in my Where Not What System.
WNW Areas and Files
Where do the files go? Areas aren't just notes — a role comes with PDFs and Word docs that Obsidian and Notion won't store. Why Where Not What is a methodology, not a single tool.
WNW An Area Example
How do areas differ from projects? This article kicks off a series to look at how I work with Areas in side my Where Not What system.
WNW Project Example
This article starts walking through and example of How I use my Where Not What Second Brain.
WNW - Progressive Summarization
How progressive summarization can help your notes become more valuable over time.