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Collider Magazine Issue 3 (September 2023)

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Collider Magazine Issue 3 (September 2023)

Welcome to the Issue 3 of the Collider Magazine! Let's continue our exploration toward becoming more effective thinkers. In this issue, you'll learn a lot about Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), including how to explore your curiosity using PKM, the difference between note-taking and PKM, and a discussion on a recent

Harness the Power of Curiosity in Personal Knowledge Management

Harness the Power of Curiosity in Personal Knowledge Management

Navigating the world of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) can feel overwhelming. It’s easy to view managing information and connecting ideas as just another task to juggle in an already busy life. It may seem more like a burden than a benefit, more like a chore than a joy. I’

Thinking Big: The Worst Challenges And How To Solve Each Of Them

Thinking Big: The Worst Challenges And How To Solve Each Of Them

Expect a mediocre life, and I guarantee you'll succeed. But that's not the only way… You can also "Think Big" and set yourself up for a legendary life with massive achievements, high-quality relationships, thriving health, and a legacy built for future generations. The difference between these 2 lives starts with

Note-taking vs. Knowledge Management: Which One Do You Do?

Note-taking vs. Knowledge Management: Which One Do You Do?

Note-taking is easy, but effective knowledge management is not that trivial. Make a scribble on a piece of paper and you already have a note. A note can help you make sense of your thoughts, explain something to someone else, or increase awareness of your thoughts or actions. The simple

Beyond the Backlash: Clarifying Misconceptions About PKM

Beyond the Backlash: Clarifying Misconceptions About PKM

In the Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) community, we're clearly experiencing a backlash. There's a lot of critique and mocking of people who engaged in building their rather sophisticated PKM system. This meme probably started it all. Sam Matla's video was the next notable artifact. Sam claims that for most people,

Visual Note-Taking: Make Complex Information More Accessible

Visual Note-Taking: Make Complex Information More Accessible

I am a very visual person, so visual note-taking plays a big part in how I encode new information and concepts. I am a big fan of note-taking apps and styles that supplement text with visual elements such as drawings, diagrams, and images. Visual note-taking can be impactful for several

Collider Magazine Issue 2 (August 2023)

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Collider Magazine Issue 2 (August 2023)

Welcome to the Issue 2 of the Collider Magazine! We continue the exploration toward finding the blueprint of an effective thinker. In this issue, you'll learn how to make sound decisions, visit a memory palace, discover the knowledge flywheel, explore new prioritization techniques, and understand how note-taking can make you

Universal Decision-Making Framework: A Case Study of a Life-Changing Decision

Universal Decision-Making Framework: A Case Study of a Life-Changing Decision

In this article, I will guide you through the universal decision-making framework – a framework I developed to deal with complex decisions. As we move through each stage of the framework, step-by-step, I will show you all the relevant decision-making concepts you need to know. My hope is that by the

Build Your Knowledge Flywheel: Organise Your Ideas, Not Your Notes

Build Your Knowledge Flywheel: Organise Your Ideas, Not Your Notes

Many people fret at the thought of organising their notes. Organisation often feels like a waste of time or a form of active procrastination. You sit down to write something very important and before you know it, you've spent an hour sorting your tags and folders. You get a sense

When Should a Decision Be Fast, or Slow?

When Should a Decision Be Fast, or Slow?

Decisions should usually be made quickly to accelerate action and learning. But sometimes, it really is smarter to take your time. Here’s how to decide. We all know that startups should make decisions quickly. Fast decisions lead to rapid action, which accelerates the loop of production and feedback, which

Relevance-Level Tagging: A 'Backlinks Plus' Approach to Grouping Relevant Information

Relevance-Level Tagging: A 'Backlinks Plus' Approach to Grouping Relevant Information

What should you do when you come across information that's not relevant to your current writing project but might be relevant in the future? "Use backlinks!" That’s the enthusiastic response you might expect from someone new to using one of the many notes apps that feature backlinks, such as

Knowledge Management Is Personal Growth: 7 Practices To Supercharge Your Development

Knowledge Management Is Personal Growth: 7 Practices To Supercharge Your Development

If you’re interested in Knowledge Management, you are seeking to improve as a person. The concepts of Knowledge Management and Personal Growth are so deeply intertwined that I'll go as far as to say that Knowledge Management automatically leads to Personal Growth. Here's why: Every piece of knowledge is

Streamline Your Workflow: How A Personal User Manual Can Improve Collaboration

Streamline Your Workflow: How A Personal User Manual Can Improve Collaboration

Collaboration is an essential component for enhanced thinking. We learn from others by engaging in an open, honest and vulnerable manner. We can also learn with others by actively listening to their input, respecting their ideas and allowing ours to be challenged. So we cannot ignore the importance of collaboration

5 Simple Steps To Create A Memory Palace As A Learner

5 Simple Steps To Create A Memory Palace As A Learner

During high school and the start of college, I got forced assignments, tests, essays, quizzes, and homework. Instead of learning for the sake of learning in itself, I learned just to get the best grade on the test. As a result, I lacked passion and interest in what I was

Collider Digest (Between Issues)

Collider Digest (Between Issues)

As we're working on the next issue of Collider magazine, we invite you to check the latest updates related to our main theme: better thinking. What happened? Elon Musk launched xAI He said the goal with xAI is to build a good AGI (artificial general intelligence) with the purpose of

Collider Magazine - Issue 1 (July 2023)

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Collider Magazine - Issue 1 (July 2023)

Welcome to the 1st Issue of the Collider Magazine! We have just started the exploration towards finding the blueprint of an effective thinker. In this issue, you'll travel through the power of notes and the guidance of AI, uncover novel mindsets, strengthen your mind, and avoid traps along the way.

Exponential Necessity for an Extended Mind: Take Control of Information Overload

Exponential Necessity for an Extended Mind: Take Control of Information Overload

It's July 2023, Planet Earth. Technology is evolving faster than ever. It's hard to even breathe some Oxygen without inhaling along some new piece of information. Emails are piling up, and articles are being written at a record pace. Social Media is flooding your phone with messages and notifications, and

The Humble Note: Turning Sterile Information Into Stimulating Insights

The Humble Note: Turning Sterile Information Into Stimulating Insights

"Sit up straight! When the teacher’s talking, you’d better be writing—or else! That’s because taking notes means you're learning." Right? Wrong. You've been misled. This cultural habit is part of the Collector's Fallacy. It's based on the false promise that "if only you could capture information

The Power of Artificial Intelligence as a Thinking Partner: Embrace Its Importance

The Power of Artificial Intelligence as a Thinking Partner: Embrace Its Importance

Confession time: I used to be quite skeptical about artificial intelligence (AI). My uncertainty reached a point where I didn't even want to engage with the topic. However, once I finally delved into the world of AI, I discovered that I had been missing out on an extraordinary and revolutionary

Effective Note-Taking: Avoid Common Traps

Effective Note-Taking: Avoid Common Traps

Not everyone needs to take notes. Many of us got through school just fine with little or no note-taking. It was possible to sit at a writing test and just think on the spot. It was possible to prepare for an exam just by reading highlighted material and memorising it.

Navigating Complexity with AI Co-pilot

Navigating Complexity with AI Co-pilot

Living in today's world often feels like navigating through an elaborate maze of complexity and uncertainty. • We are overloaded with information • We're dealing with tons of fake information & conspiracies • We face wicked problems & meta-crisis • Even everyday problems are growing increasingly complex. Instead of dealing with facts, we are dealing with

Heading into the Unknown: Cultivating an Explorer's Mindset

Heading into the Unknown: Cultivating an Explorer's Mindset

An Invitation to all Explorers to Embark on the Sea of Personal Knowledge Management. Preface — The Invitation I intend these words for those who heard from far about PKM, for those who know well about it but want to remember why they practice it, and for those who want to

Building Resilience: Coping with the Pressures of Work

Building Resilience: Coping with the Pressures of Work

Mental health is fundamental for efficient thinking, but mental health is not only about something you have. Instead, it is the result of an interaction between us and our environments. For instance, approximately 1 in 2 researchers embarking on their PhD will experience mental health concerns during their PhD, with

Welcome to Collider!

Welcome to Collider!

Hey, we are Bianca, Andrew and Fis! We’ve created Collider as a space where the community of those who value thinking comes together and collaborate to spark new ideas and enhance our thinking. We’re on a mission to explore the blueprint of an effective thinker, together. That means