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DeveloPassion's Newsletter #142 - Clarity

Edition 142 of my newsletter, discussing Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and more!

Sebastien Dubois

Oct 24, 2023 — 5 min read

Welcome

Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩

Yet another week has passed. There's now less than 20% of the year left. That's not a lot of time. But 18.88% is not zero, meaning that there's still time to make meaningful progress!

Alright, let's gooooo 🚀

The lab 🧪

This week, I let my inspiration pull me forward. I worked mainly on the newly launched Knowledge Worker Kit. I have:

Prepared the outline
Started writing the part about "Clarity", which focuses on how to bring clarity to your life. It applies to Knowledge Workers too
- Written about Values, and Principles, and how to combine them to create a Personal Manifesto
- Written about goals (there's a free part linked below)

You might wonder why I'm starting to write this for knowledge workers. Well the thing is that, without clarity, no intelligent knowledge work is possible. It all starts there: clarity about your values, principles, goals and priorities!

Here's a small extract:

I've also updated and shared my own Personal Manifesto, using the approach I've included in the guide:

I will continue to explore ideas, topic by topic, sharing useful and valuable guidance, templates and resources along the way, as part of the content, but also with the private community:

There's a ton yet to be done, but I'm convinced that this will be a valuable product. I just need to convince a few more of you to start the journey with me.

Next week I'm going to write about SMART goals, life goals, time horizons, and more!

Apart from that, the lab was pretty quiet. I'm just glad that one more of you decided to support my work. Thank you so much ❤️

New articles

This week, I've published an article about the importance of setting and pursuing goals. It's a small extract of the Knowledge Worker Kit (just the introduction): https://www.dsebastien.net/the-crucial-role-of-setting-and-pursuing-goals/

Quotes of the week

"If we don’t define enough, we default to more, which makes it impossible to understand when to say no"
"You want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous" — Naval Ravikant

Thinking and learning

On the explosion of Tools for Thought (TfTs): https://www.strategicstructures.com/?p=2551 and https://www.strategicstructures.com/?p=2591

PKM (Part 1): The Explosion

PKM (Part 2): Landscape

An interesting video about Maps of Content (MoCs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Dw9gaYrfc

When we keep everything on paper, it was someone's job to organize it. Organizing information is quite the challenge. But the first step is to realize that organizing it will help: https://johnnydecimal.com/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0010-manifesto-part-4-why-arent-we-given-training/

22.00.0010 Manifesto part 4: Why aren’t we given training?║J•D

Johnny.Decimal is a system to organise projects (or your life, or anything else)

Storytelling matters to non-fiction too: https://twitter.com/francis_miller/status/1668275711306768384?t=MZILj6QM_vbU9mSCZINEYw&s=03

Non-fiction authors normally expect their readers to start at the beginning of the book and then read through to the end. Here are three examples of authors who give readers an option to pursue alternative non-linear routes.

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— Francis Miller (@francis_miller) June 12, 2023