Different kinds of tasks has different demands on people’s working memory. More complex and difficult tasks has higher "cognitive load" and a greater perceived mental effort. There are 3 types of cognitive load..
Published on Nov 25, 2022
Humans have a natural curiosity - its a drive to learn patterns, rules, heuristic that lets you compress your understanding into something that's easier to remember. If you encounter a new rule that can better compress knowledge than the earlier one, that is 'compression progress'. Brain will use the better rule from then onward. We learn many such rules as children - but we refine them as we grow older. Brain rewards us with a good feeling or 'Aha moments' when we find a better rule.
Published on Nov 25, 2022
This is part of the PARA method of Personal Knowledge Management.
Published on Oct 16, 2022
Framework to use when creating notes in the Zettelkasten format.
Published on May 20, 2022
Creativity and problem solving is better when you have internalized knowledge about the problem domain. This helps you make quick connections, try multiple combinations, see patterns and intuit answers.
Published on May 18, 2022
Deliberate practice is a planned series of mindful activities designed to improve a specific skill and guided by well-informed feedback.
Published on Jan 10, 2022
Bloom's Taxonomy is a hierarchical system that orders cognitive tasks that can be used to help teach and learn.
Published on Oct 20, 2021
Sharing the process of building/learning something in public is better that sharing the goal of building it. Advantages of sharing the process...
Published on Jun 25, 2021
This is a modified version of the Organizational Knowledge Management process. This process is more geared for Personal Knowledge Management and skill building.
Published on Jun 24, 2021
There are three types of knowledge in Organizational Knowledge Management...
Published on Jun 24, 2021
Progressive Summarization is a technique that relies on summarizing a note in multiple stages over time. You save only the best excerpts from whatever you’re reading, and then create a summary of those excerpts, and then a summary of that summary, distilling the essence of the content at each stage.
Published on Jun 23, 2021
Shortcut Method: Try to explain the concept to a child(ELI5).
Published on Jun 23, 2021
Part of the Personal Knowledge Mastery school of thought.
Published on Jun 13, 2021
Sense-making is the process by which people give meaning to their collective experiences.
Published on Jun 11, 2021
DIKW Pyramid is a model that is useful in Personal Knowledge Management.
Published on Jun 11, 2021
Knowledge workers need to be responsible for their own growth and learning. In Organizations, this is the bottom-up approach to knowledge management.
Published on Jun 11, 2021
You will only internalize knowledge when you apply it in someway, to create something. The smallest version of this is creating the notes when you consume content in systems like Zettelkasten. Expect only to know what is there in the notes.
Published on Jun 09, 2021
Brain is for getting ideas - not keeping them. Have a fast access mechanism to immediately capture an idea whenever you have it. While in the shower or driving or whenever - if you have an idea, capture it outside your brain.
Published on Jun 09, 2021
Knowledge is inherently personal - and due to this, top down approach to Knowledge management does not work well. When you separate the knowledge from the person holding the knowledge, it loses context, why it matter, where it should apply, etc.
Published on Jun 09, 2021