« We should ideally balance our input and output through continuous creation. The information we consume should be turned into evergreen notes—using our own words. – Anne-Laure Le Cunff »
When doing knowledge work, it’s important to balance your level of consumption and creation. Even If it’ll cost your a number of articles that you want to consume. Instead, add them to your read-it-later app till the moment you finish processing your existing notes or the one you were planing to develop. This will prevent you from being affected by Collector’s Fallacy. Maxim Dorofeev once talked about importance of practicing focus state through not thinking about anything and just sitting/lying on the bed/sofa. In some way, it’s also relevant to our problem: consuming too much.
To break this vicious circle, once you have an abundance of notes in your Inbox, process them, distill them(Progressive summarization), turn them into Evergreens(1,2 Evergreen notes are).This will bring you to the point where your notes and your workflow will be in compliance with 3 столпа обучения and Keep balance between theoretical and practical knowledge.
