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ACE Thought-Weaving Framework
Last updated
Aug 15, 2023
# Reference
# Notes
# Definitions
- ACE stands for…
- You can define these in your own ways with your own verbs…
- A - resonate, plant, encounter
- C - gather, contextualize, distill
- E - WEAVE, craft, transform
- I would just call my own ACE process gardening
# Exercise
- Producer
- What are your PKM/creative/work goals?
- To get organized
- To create (a.k.a. write?) more efficiently
- What does “achievement” look like in your work?
- Making a complex topic easily understandable
- A tapestry
- An organized system
- A sustainable workflow
- Guide
- How are your systems shaping your habits and results?
- It can make or break my learning, my creating
- Are your efforts aligned with what you value?
- Member
- How easily/effectively can you communicate in your circles?
- When there’s passion, easily….comfort/care too
- But I’m often blocked by my time/energy
- In what circles do you actively engage within?
- Family, friends
- Online community
- Local dance scene
- Researcher
- What is it you need to know? What is it you want to learn?
- Speculative design
- Emerging technologies
- Where are you encountering things that spark/resonate?
- School classes
- My online content stream (e.g. newsletters, Twitter)
- Books
- Sensemaker
- What do you want to spend time working on?
- What does it look like when you are working on your main thing
- Endlessly detangling complex topics…
- Creative experimentation
- Constantly consuming content and connecting it to my project
- Creator
- Where do you share your stuff? How do you share your stuff?
- Digital garden notes
- Substack newsletter
- In what forms do your expressions take shape?
- messy notes (seedlings)
- Long-form essays
- Other creative works (e.g. artworks)