The synthesis pass is how you squeeze value out of observations.
- The synthesis pass is how you squeeze value out of observations.
- You have to do it when it's still somewhat fresh in your mind.
- The less fresh it is, the larger the activation energy to page it back in, and the more likely you don't do it.
- Often you want a handful of iterative synthesis passes.
- My Bits and Bobs has three synthesis passes:
- 1) Capturing very rough notes live when something feels worth capturing.
- 2) A couple of days later, cleaning up those notes and adding a bit more context so they'll make sense to me a year from now.
- 3) That weekend, doing a deeper synthesis pass to get them to a point where they'll make sense to me a decade from now: the final form of the Bits and Bobs.