Interesting piece on how to use notes as a superpower. So you remember every great idea and useful tidbit from readings. So you file, link and keep making progress — creating books and lectures and new ideas from your work.
Most people gather some bits of knowledge but most do not keep it linked and integrated and moving forward.
For an author, like the Ryan Holliday who wrote the piece below, knote.com’s approach is the exact digital version.
For a product person or team leader, this js exactly the same process. A way of recording data points, connecting them, establishing insights and making progress.
— Some strategy snippets from the piece and a link to it. —
““It is better to see once than hear a hundred times.” — Gorbachev
Retort: “You may not be afraid to have your hand cut off, but your body will suffer.” — John D. Rockefeller
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.” — Schopenhauer pg 77
“Pursuit should be to the last breath of man and beast.” — (Prussian Maxim qtd in Knights Cross)
“All men work more zealously against their enemies than they cooperate with their friends.” — Caesar qtd in Schiff’s Cleopatra pg 19
“Find them! Fix them! Fight them! Finish them!” — Gen. Ridgway/military slogan in Korean War. qtd in Savior Generals.”