February 17, 2022
This is Kei and Kazuki,
founders of Glasp 👋
We pick up 3 good articles that we found this week.
Hopefully, it will bring new perspectives and help
you develop your career and learning journey.
This Week's Reading List 📚
How
Note Taking Can Help You Become an
Expert by Cedric Chin
(22min)
In ill-structured (messy) domains, concept
instantiation is highly variable. Thus, having a
system to collect and connect (backlink) fragments
of cases helps to accelerate expertise and build an
adaptive worldview. Pick a note-taking app with
backlinking capabilities. Start copying cases
into your note-taking app, perhaps from articles,
PDFs, books, or blog posts.
Dancing
With Systems by Donella Meadows
(14min)
We can never fully understand our world, not in the
way our reductionistic science has led us to expect.
Our science itself, from quantum theory to the
mathematics of chaos, leads us into irreducible
uncertainty. The future can’t be predicted, but
it can be envisioned and brought lovingly into
being. Systems can’t be controlled, but they can be
designed and redesigned. We can’t control
systems or figure them out. But we can dance with
them!
How
to Eat an Elephant, One Atomic Concept at a
Time by Kevin Kwok (19min)
The best products map to how customers think about
their workflow. They match the abstraction level of
their customers: not too high that it’s unusable,
but not too low that it’s hard to use easily or
extend in more complex ways. They choose the
right atomic concepts. The best companies
introduce better atomic concepts and help push their
customers forward. Strong enough products will
have ecosystems around them whether or not the
companies actively manage it.
See you next week ;)
Best,
Kei and Kazuki
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Today's
Quote: "I would rather die of passion
than of boredom."- Vincent van
Gogh
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