video-interview-about-how-to-take-notes
Notes: https://fortelabs.co/blog/interview-with-sonke-ahrens
The notes mention video-progressive-summarization
At 7:40 taking a lot of notes helps you challenge yourself. There is not always someone else around to challenge you, so getting things out of your head helps you really understand what you think, and forces you to be explicit. X writing forces clarity ^notes-help-you-challenge-yourself
At 9:00 remembering how I used to think about something... only when you can compare notes do you see a difference, because the brain is always adjusting
At 9:50 how you think about higher education... he wants us to revisit the notion that you need to decide what to work on, then looking for information about it.
At 12:00 how do you get your students to adopt these techniques? Get the older students (who know the value) to talk to the younger students. They are more believable than a professor.
At 25:40: "One of my favorite uses of these systems is if you don't know what your notetaking system should be, take notes on that, write on that, collect ideas on that... it's like this recursive process where you can just keep going into whatever is challenging you, even if it's the system itself. I found that to be a very productive use of my notes" x like how I use obsidian ^notes-about-your-notetaking-system
At 32:45 Drawing a contrast to simply adding something to a collection... "When you ask yourself to which kind of discussion, under what note sequence, can this idea contribute, you much more dive into the actual content. You think about what difference this new information makes for your previous held beliefs for example. Information can only make a difference in regards to something... (later) Thinking more about the difference the new information makes for what you have written before... is this just an addition? Or is it a contradiction? Is it messing with my previously held belief? Do I need to change what I wrote before?" X actively seeking out disconfirming information knowledge schema^what-difference-can-this-note-bring-to-beliefs
At 37:00 it's easier to see link not trackeds when it's someone else's.
At 38:00 He only wants to take notes on new, surprising things, now. He wants to find the best attack vectors into his existing mental model. ^best-attack-vector-to-existing-mental-model
At 39:40 Tiago has a beef with spaced repetition because it is not trying to externalize into a second brain, but it's trying to internalize. ^spaced-repetition-externalize-vs-internalize
He does not used spaced repetition... rather he tries to have more examples, more elaboration so it happens naturally. ^more-elaboration
At 41:30 - when you have a system that forces you to revisit old notes, that's basically spaced repetition. ^revisiting-old-notes-is-basically-spaced-repetition
At 43:50 - What kind of environment do we need to get insight?
At 50:50 - "being a professional reader doesn't mean to have a certain quality of note taking.. it means to be able to adjust the amount of time and attention to the text you're dealing with.. that sometime means reading the title and chucking it away. Sometimes it means taking a week to go through it all and rephrasing it. Being able to adjust the attention and the speed... that's what it is all about." ^professional-readers-adjust-to-the-text
At 53:00 Tiago - "you don't want to outsource your agency to the system"
Maybe 3/4 of the way through he asks about spaced repetition. He doesn't use it. Or rather, there are aspects of the Zettelkasten that are like spaced repetition, like revisiting the same note over and over again. ^re-visiting-notes-like-spaced-repetition