Knowledge management systems today are a dead end.
Knowledge management systems today are a dead end. Information goes in but doesn't come out. Knowledge management is an end in and of itself... but only for a small set o...
Topic: knowledge management
7 chunks · 5 episodes
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- knowledge management appears in 7 chunks across 5 episodes, from 2023-10-30 to 2025-05-26.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 10/30/23 (2023-10-30), with 2 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with background context, compounding value, and exponential cost, while by chunk count it sits between inherently dangerous and open ended system; its yearly rank moved from #14 in 2023 to #195 in 2025.
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The most important part of my knowledge management process is the weekly ritual of synthesis.
The most important part of my knowledge management process is the weekly ritual of synthesis. I have a particular flow of taking notes, curating them, and organizing them in my own home-grown knowledg...
In my knowledge management workflow, I interact with notes three times:
In my knowledge management workflow, I interact with notes three times: Once, as I capture the insight in the moment in a rough form to process later. Next, a few days later, a...
I've built my own personal knowledge management system, https://thecompendium.cards, on nights and weekends over many years.
I've built my own personal knowledge management system, https://thecompendium.cards, on nights and weekends over many years. There are ~700 public cards, but over 10k private working notes, with hu...
Your mind runs on the substrate of your physical brain.
... In this way, you can make the substrate of your mind more powerful. A personal knowledge management tool that you built yourself: when you add a feature, you're making your brain better! Other ways your mind can auto-expand: viewing the internet as ...
There are two fundamental skills/mindsets that together give rise to self-bootstrapping ability:
...o apply to new problems, meaning the value of this power compounds. Things like knowledge management tools and workflows can significantly accelerate this compounding loop. These two skills are very, very hard to teach or get someone to develop from ...
The process of taking a step back and abducting insights out of your recent experience is extremely valuable.
...t those insights can help you, too! All of this is turbo-charged when you use a knowledge management system; each little seed of insight you create is captured for the long-term. If you have a regular process to abduct insights and put them in your k...