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How I manage my information flow to feed strategic insight. If you’ve ever been down the rabbit hole of knowledge management and building a second brain, you’ll know that it quickly turns into a nerd off between productivity bros that spend more time building systems for knowledge management than actually managing the knowledge itself. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this for two reasons. 1?? I want to work less. Having a system that makes it easier to resurface the right information when I need is incredibly valuable for me. 2?? I want to be create more. I consume a lot of information daily. I want an ongoing system that moves ideas to action on an ongoing basis. It’s a four-part process. In my mind should be a no brainer but I think the problem a lot of people have is that they save a lot, get overwhelmed that they never get through it all and never actually allow time for processing and developing new ideas. ?? CAPTURE Automated workflows collect everything interesting: Anything written (articles, newsletters, PDFs etc.) goes straight to Readwise, otherwise it goes into mymind, Inc. The key is to be able to capture without disrupting whatever else I’m doing at that moment. ???? PROCESS Throughout the week I have scheduled moments in my calendar for processing where I go through and clear out anything no longer relevant and spend some time reading or digging into the things i’ve saved. Everything that I want to keep goes into a master vault in Notion which is tagged and archived in a way that allows me to resurface it at a later date. ?? DEVELOP I also have time blocked weekly where I pull together important thoughts from the things that I’ve saved. An example might be that I read something on ‘dark mode’, something on ‘fourth spaces’ and something on ‘hike clubs’ for example and there may be an obvious connection between the things. I dive back into my Notion vault and pull out relevant ideas and use Sublime to start to curate these threads of thought into collections, ie. ‘slowness as counterculture’, that then build into more developed takes on particular topics. ?? OUTPUT Over time these collections start to act as the foundation to client work, writing or maybe just my own positioning on a particular topic. Of course, often there needs to be some more in depth actual research or development to build things out into something concrete but I’ve found that having this foundation often puts me on the front foot when I’m starting any project. It’s worth emphasising that this is just the foundation. It in no way replaces actual methodical research. It's a complementary practice—a ritual for making sense of our digital intake and processing it into relevant insight. This is of course a simplified version of the flow. If anybody is interested in seeing a proper under the hood overview, please comment and let me know and maybe I build out a more holistic guide.

Machine-like humans and human-like machines. For?Sari Azout, this is one plausible scenario for the future of knowledge work. But it’s not the one she believes in. Sari is an entrepreneur, investor, and writer. As the founder of Sublime, she offers a different vision of AI’s possibilities than most. What if, instead of making us more productive, AI helped us reclaim our human creativity? Sari will be speaking at Sana AI Summit in Stockholm on May 7. Register interest: https://lnkd.in/dv3h9h4y

The more I use AI, the more I realize ignoring its creative potential is like dismissing the ‘90s internet as a porn delivery system. At first, I saw using AI as a binary choice between soulless efficiency or becoming a luddite and preserving your authentic human creativity. Over the last few months, Claude has become my dream creative partner, and I haven’t lost my soul. This broke my brain a little bit. Here's where I landed: AI is powerful but taste-blind. It?can?make anything but it has no idea what's actually worth making. But AI + your taste? That's the game-changer. Full piece here: ttps://https://lnkd.in/ePNBds9q