Dive deep into technology-augmented thinking

Whether you're using Tana, Notion, or any other tool to manage knowledge and collaborate – that's the one thing you want to avoid.

Whether you're using Tana, Notion, or any other tool to manage knowledge and collaborate – that's the one thing you want to avoid.

How NASA structures their lessons learned and how you can implement this for yourself

A quick step-by-step guide for setting aliases in Tana

You're likely a professional computer user – you should behave like the athlete that you are

Learn how to use Tana's supertags with live searches and create amazing workflows.

Understand the basics of how to use Tana's supertags.

Learn how to use Tana's live searches.

Get started with Tana by exploring its main UI and navigation features.

Learn how to use Tana's nodes.

Learn how to leverage Tana's fields and tags to record data about individual nodes.

Our common measures of time never worked for me for time management. So I invented my own.

A quick How To guide for shaping your information diet

'How in the world. You need less Twitter in your life.' I had, again, discarded my guard rails of attention design and failed at input triage.

Personal Knowledge Management is too restrictive – you want to think about all seven of these questions instead.

On the Internet, information is limitless. The Grazing-Feeding Model of Information Gathering helps you know how you're engaging with that information.

For the last 15 years I've ignored one fundamental truth: real constraints exist. Here's what I'm trying now.

Bullshit is everywhere, and these algorithms of thought help you do more adversarial reading.

With taking notes as an example, let's talk about how to improve any process.

You should stick to one note-taking system and fiddle with it as little as possible. That's a myth.

Why to get rid of peer review and academic journals as we know them – and possibly what to do instead.

Common wisdom says that you need to avoid context switching. That's only half true – sometimes you need to context switch.

Context switching is unavoidable – but you can make it less costly by combining a couple of simple strategies.

Counter two frequent biases while reading the news: Selection Bias and Description Bias.

Interstitial Journaling is a great technique for minimizing context switching costs and staying productive. Here's how I use it in Roam Reserch.

A guide to reference managers, what you should expect from them and why Zotero is the reference manager you should use - whether you're in academia or not.

Behavior and Theory are two heuristics that can help you in deciding between courses and teachers.

Can you imagine being able to transfer 'mental software' between people? It's now possible, by using Algorithms of Thought in Roam Research.

How to use Roam Research as your keystone habit to regularly revisit writing that is important to you, using the ∆ feature in Roam.

A guide for using Roam Research together with Zotero to get the most out of your citation metadata.

How to use Roam Research's new Delta feature to do Spaced Repetition and never forget anything again.

My grandfather's way of doing history research before the computer age. Using paper and a meticulous process, he built something close to a Zettelkasten.

How to make sure that you never lose insights when reading and highlighting. Because Highlight Dementia is completely preventable.

How discovery became an actor's concept - and what you can use that for. Can you play chess without knowing that you are doing so?

An introduction to Algorithms of Thought - how they differ from Mental Models and how to use them in Roam Research.

There are words you can't use to describe yourself without sounding like an utter ass. Imagine asking someone at a party who they are and they respond with 'Nice to meet you, I'm a brilliant photographer/physicist/writer' - instant, life-long friends you'll be, no?

Contrary to popular belief, you can't just disagree with someone because you feel like it. You have to __earn__ the right to disagree with someone's position.

How to create a Gruvbox-style color theme for Roam Research using Roam's built-in CSS capabilities.