Ohhh I started sketching out something while writing this essay... I've been working to use Tana for sensemaking and reflection, two things that I didn't spend enough time doing before I jumped into the world of 'second brains.' I think that process is worth sharing. Even if my Tana skills are pretty low tech right now.
Would love to read it. I started using Evernote and the rest of the tech stack David recommended in WoP and still find Evernote to be tedious, difficult and just not fun. It has to be fun and create value disproportionate to the effort. It just isn’t and so I dread and just don’t use it. And wish I had a better solution.
Love this!! The way you frame writing as not just a medium for thought but an actual mechanism for systemic change hits. Hard.
You talk about how metaphors can obscure more than they reveal in the previous piece, and here you’re showing how personal stories, when wielded well, can actually cut through abstraction to influence real-world decisions. Do you ever worry about the tradeoff between storytelling and precision? Like, have you ever had an idea get too simplified in the process of making it compelling, and how do you guard against that?
This is great. Thank you. I’m working on a table of contents for Letters to My Children. Have you written anything about Tana?
Ohhh I started sketching out something while writing this essay... I've been working to use Tana for sensemaking and reflection, two things that I didn't spend enough time doing before I jumped into the world of 'second brains.' I think that process is worth sharing. Even if my Tana skills are pretty low tech right now.
Would love to read it. I started using Evernote and the rest of the tech stack David recommended in WoP and still find Evernote to be tedious, difficult and just not fun. It has to be fun and create value disproportionate to the effort. It just isn’t and so I dread and just don’t use it. And wish I had a better solution.
Great reminder, thank you x
Love this!! The way you frame writing as not just a medium for thought but an actual mechanism for systemic change hits. Hard.
You talk about how metaphors can obscure more than they reveal in the previous piece, and here you’re showing how personal stories, when wielded well, can actually cut through abstraction to influence real-world decisions. Do you ever worry about the tradeoff between storytelling and precision? Like, have you ever had an idea get too simplified in the process of making it compelling, and how do you guard against that?
Wonderful suggestions and guidance. And what an opener! It must have been amazing to learn that you've had that kind of impact.