Reading
* journalnotes on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okHkUIW46ks
1. Core Principles
- Goal = Retaining important information and being able to apply it.
- Non-Goal: Trying to remember everything we read.
- There are two stages of learning: Digestion, and consumption. They both must be balanced
- What goes into your brain < What stays in your brain
2. Categorizing Information
- There are different 'processes' for different categories. It is important to type your stuff.
2.1. Procedural Information
Information that tells you how something should be executed. Application is the goal to retaining this information.
2.1.1. What if you cant practice it right now?
- Move on to something else
- Terminate.
2.2. Analogous Information
Information that is related to something you already have prior knowledge about. It can remind you of something you already know. You must critique it:
- How are they similar/different
- Where does it not make sense anymore
- Is there a better analogy?
2.3. Conceptual Information
What something is. Contains theories, explanations, relationships, applications, … Is considered the opposite of procedural information. You should map it on a network. This is what we do with org-roam and our backlinks. This forces us to think about the bigger picture.
2.4. Evidential Information
Detailed, technical pieces of information that can be used as examples to prove a conceptual point(see: concept). You should store it somewhere and rehearse it. Storage occurs during consumption, and rehearsal occurs later:
- How to use/apply it?
- What conceptual information is this an example of?
2.5. Referential Information
Information that is not specifically connected to something, but defines an important value. You must store it and rehearse it.
3. Consumption
4. Digestion
5. Elsewhere
5.1. References
5.2. In my garden
Notes that link to this note (AKA backlinks).