Spent 3 hours reading a couple of books, revisiting clipped notes on Evernotes, and going through the book summaries here.
Written some notes, Just going to dump them below.
Couple of themes:
- Eisenhower’s “plan vs planning”
- remember what General Eisenhower advised us: the planning is far more important than the plan. (https://sandymaguire.me/books/hunt-andy-pragmatic-thinking-and-learning.html)
- “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Dwight D. Eisenhower (https://sandymaguire.me/books/tynan-life-nomadic.html)
- This is what Eisenhower meant when he said, “plans are nothing, planning is everything.” (https://sandymaguire.me/books/venkatesh-rao-tempo.html)
- weed vs flower, perception
- Rory Sutherland in Alchemy: “A flower is a weed with an advertising budget.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson “A weed is a plant whose virtue has not yet been discovered.”
- Jerry Weinberg
- mentioned in Andy Hunt’s book: Pragmatic Thinking
- in Naomi Karten’s books: Managing Expectation, and Communicating Change
- On asking questions, consulting
- The Coaching Habit
- Jerry Weinberg (Are Your Lights On, Secrets to Consulting)
- Alan Weiss
- Sebastian Marshall’s essays
- On Practice
- Practice may not make perfect, but it sure makes permanent
- Perfect practice makes permanent
- The idea of talking to strangers, human as social beings, fear, communication
- Russell Brand’s Instagram post yesterday
- The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Maclaine, Shirley (in Tynan’s book: Life Nomadic)
- that social experiment research paper yday, about wellbeing
- https://personalmba.com/12-standard-forms-of-value/ can be paired up with https://impossiblehq.com/value-hierarchy/
- while Core Human Drives here are not as granular as Bain’s B2C Elements of Value here I think
- Going meta on conversations
- https://sandymaguire.me/books/kleon-austin-show-your-work.html
- My MO of “show up more, find your tribe, ship, let yourself be seen, refine your voice”
- There is a reason why things are the way they are. Can be questioned, not to be taken as it’s given.
- “Everything around you are manmade structure” (BJ Miller, Steve Jobs)
- https://sandymaguire.me/books/ryan-holiday-trust-me-im-lying.html
- Capitalism, 40 hours workweek. Henry Ford, Milton Friedman (Simon Sinek on Cal Fussman)
- it’s a limit, not a minimum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day
- retelling the thing https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/40-hour-workweek-henry-ford-1026067-2017-07-27
- ok debunked https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/09/viral-image/does-8-hour-day-and-40-hour-come-henry-ford-or-lab/
- Alex Danco on IFG. About the housing industry, they are the way they are for entrenched reasons. The historical evolution. Suburb, technology, distribution.
- About thinking, linear, speech, writing, second brain
- xanadu, Ted Nelson
- Conaw’s rant on PKM tools and the structure of thought
- Visa’s thread about bookmark management
- Venkat’s collective SB thing / against waldenponding(? oh, different piece). Related to:
- cozyweb / “conversational media eating authorial media”
- and BASB
- and waldenponding
- Ryan Singer’s “alt UI for writing”
- And the above ties into my interest about Human Nature and Social Infrastructure
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Again, thoughts, ideas, in linear form. but they actually are interconnected.
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We need a way to capture and structure the questions / seed, and link the different answers in different contexts, angles, and levels
- “organizing the questions we are trying to answer, and making explicit the lines of reasoning we hold”
- Limitation of language to describe reality
- Many ideas are not verbalizable
- On my axiom “everything is lossy”. Subconscious processes. We are processing a very narrow slice of data in our conscious mode.
- People putting my MO into words
- SM: “I’m constantly on the lookout for words and phrases that map well to reality. Recently I came across two you might find valuable.”
- SM: “In business and life-in-general, I love taking a really complex problem, defining it, figuring out what the real objectives are, brainstorming through a number of paths that could get there, spec’ing out a campaign, implementing the campaign, and reviewing the results. I like taking the hazy and undefined, and turning it into the experimental, and turning the experimental into the concrete.”
- Visa: “I think though it’s important to know WHY you’re opening so many tabs and WHY you’re saving so many links. In my case, every folder of links is really and truly a research project for essays and books I intend to write. I’m obsessive; I hate losing good reference material”
