Evergreen note
a different kind of challenge: trying to “always have a hypothesis” and re-articulating it whenever it changes. By doing this, I try to continually focus my reading on the goal of forming a bottom-line view, rather than just “gathering information.” I think this makes my investigations more focused and directed, and the results easier to retain. I consider this approach to be probably the single biggest difference-maker between "reading a ton about lots of things, but retaining little" and "efficiently developing a set of views on key topics and retaining the reasoning behind them."
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hypothesis and hypothesis articulation
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your process should be driven by a goal
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^revising-hypothesis
Evergreen notes are for creating artifacts
C evergreen notes turn ideas into objects you can manipulate
Page 129: "restrict ourselves to just one idea per note and force ourselves to be as precise and brief as possible." ^one-idea-per-note
Is an Evergreen note a hypothesis? Is it an open question? Is it a mental model? It's some kind of work in progress. Some meaningful construct? Something that's open to re-interpretation and amendment. Is it one piece in a latticework of theories?
The thing that makes these notes exciting is that they allow you to have a take on some thing, or a hypothesis, but not be stuck with it, because you like to make all connections, and even actively seeking out disconfirming information