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I Was a Sucker for Irrelevancy

Many of us desire the ability to multitask, the allure of being efficient and extremely productive, not fall into irrelevancy. Many do not realize the term multitask appeared in an IBM paper describing its capabilities, 1965. Since then, the term has been transitioned to human tasks, in hopes to give the persona of efficiency. This…

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Useful Tools – Zettelkasten

As I am working on my Zettelkasten, I am starting to see growth in certain content. One of these involves useful tools. Useful tools are used to reduce friction, increase efficiency and remain as simplistic as possible. This is not really easy when you consider the multiple factors involved in today’s requested tasks. In today’s…

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The Zettelkasten Method

In my pursuit of building a second brain, I came across the original (or known oldest) method, the Zettelkasten Method. Zettelkasten Method Origin The German word ‘Zettelkasten’ means ‘slip box’, created by Niklas Luhmann. Technically ‘zettel’ means slip and ‘kasten’ meaning box. The scholar used slips of paper in a box while utilizing this method…

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Critical Thinking Exercise

Since critical thinking is a mindset, you must always step back, and re-center. Once you remove emotion away from the situation, you can follow this exercise toward Critical Thinking. The following questions should be asked after we step back and remove our emotional bond. Who said it? What did they say? Where did they say…

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