A simple algorithm to organize your understanding of any idea or phenomenon:
1. Write down a high-level natural language description of it -- the first thing that comes to mind. Don't sweat it, keep it simple, it's fine if most of it stays vague or implicit or sounds dumb.
1. Write down a high-level natural language description of it -- the first thing that comes to mind. Don't sweat it, keep it simple, it's fine if most of it stays vague or implicit or sounds dumb.
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3. Repeat as many times as needed (typically at least 3 times).
My Daily/passing notes are pretty general & usually filled with questions.
Couple times a month i organize these into their proper files (using @obsidian.md atm), where i'll review, clear up misconceptions, and try to make relations to other notes/concepts.
It’s like a previously unknown secret had just been revealed to him when I responded.
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The proof is the sequence of steps, usually A LOT of steps, to get to a conclusion from an initial starting point or statement.
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This process takes practice because we have to be disciplined about asking ‘how is this true or not true’? Or, what does this mean? 4/
Or, ‘if that is true, what else must be true?’ Or, ‘how can I MAKE it true?’
I think the bigger challenge for most of us is being able to clearly articulate the desired end point.
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Without that process, debates would always end up being parallel.
Mental models would never align.
1- Write a high-level scattered notes
2- Use GPT-4 and Claude to organize the notes
3- Use notebooksLM (google) to combine the two and extract highlights
4- Create a podcast on notebookLM to listen to it
5-re-write the notes
repeat till I reach a steady state