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LYT 10 - Bianca Pereira - Session 2
Last updated
Aug 15, 2023
Atlas/Maps/LYT 10 MOC
# Topic: Processing the Literature
- Why do we need sources?
- Provenance: from source to idea…tracing the path
- our ideas aren’t original
- Strengthens our arguments
- We use multiple documents to support an idea
- “We read 10 papers to write one sentence”
- Sea of Uncertainty: we are swimming in information all around us
- If you only have a few productive hours in a day…how do you use it? Consuming, collecting, or creating? We do all
- How can we make this more balanced? (compared to just mostly consuming)
- One solution… do less? No, do it ==more efficiently==
- First…how can we search for good quality sources?
- Recall: The PKM Pyramid, PKM Mindsets. How do we waste our time?
- 1st Mindset: Not all sources (equally) matter…
- Having a To-Read Later List is overwhelming and time-consuming
- To solve this, create a ==High Pass Filter==
- Have an ==Anti-Library==: a collection of all the books you haven’t read
- Remember…we only want the high quality stuff. Move the high quality stuff from the Antilibrary to your actual library
- 2nd Mindset: Notes as pieces of understanding
- Problem: We tend to take the wrong notes.
- Three different notes
- Summary notes
- say what the author said or say how it’s relevant to your work
- good for annotated bibliography
- bad for personal knowledge management
- Highlight notes
- Highlights, then personal commentary/thoughts
- Problem: you can end up highlighting everything…no focus
- good for processing understanding
- bad for personal knowledge management
- Idea notes
- Highlights become PART of the idea notes
- Good for processing your understanding and personal knowledge management
- Bad for source summarization
- Pieces of Truth v.s. Pieces of Understanding
- Truth: (only) other people’s words, static, published by others
- Understanding: your ideas, grow over time, your words (mostly)
- This is the goal for our notes
- We don’t just write notes about the literature. We write notes about ==our understanding== of the literature.