LYT 10 - Sensemaking 2

Last updated Aug 15, 2023

Atlas/Maps/LYT 10 MOC

• NoMa: note-making
• sharpens your thinking, gives you intellectual assets
• What most of us are not doing: externalizing our ideas…this is what we want to improve on
• Note-taking
  • quickly captured
  • other people’s thoughts
  • FOMO mentality
  • easy in, easy out
• Note-making
  • mindfully made
  • your words
  • active
  • JOMO
  • mindfully in, mindfully out
• Note-making is the act of investing in yourself.
  • It gives you linkable assets, which can easily become intellectual assets.
• Sometimes it’s clear why you’re note-making…but just as often, it’s not clear. You feel the spark and you want to go towards that.
• NoMa: a way to make insights in minutes last a lifetime
• How to NoMa (related to Cards/ACE Thought-Weaving Framework)
  • Be a “thing finder”: notice anythjing; “Hmm…”
  • Connect… “That reminds me of…”
  • “Because…”
• How to build these assets? Make a note and link it
• “The best time to plant an idea is yesterday. The next best time to plant is now.”
• The more general, the more difficult for topics
• Make a connection to form an expression
  • Which resonate: synthesize, shape, develop, assemble

• MOCs ground and orient your thinking efforts
  • Whenever you feel that you are floating aimlessly, tether yourself to an existing MOC, or anchor yourself to a new one
• Develop your PKM intuitions with link-based tools
  • Working with tools that allow us to easily link ideas helps us build up a new intution that says, “I’m feeling uncomfortable with this topic”
  • That’s the Mental Squeeze Point. Try to be aware of how that feels
  • An excellent solution to this is the MOC.
• Expect to change your notes
  • Just like re-titling, refactoring a note’s content (i.e. rewriting and restructuring) is a core part of developing your knowledge over time.
• MOCs allow for both top-down and bottom-up
  • Bottom-up: You are naturally growing notes and to overcome a Mental Squeeze Point, you create an MOC.
  • Top-down: You know a certain topic is important to you, even if you don’t know what to add to it right now. Create a new MOC and drop a few words to Future You.
  • Middle-out: You use an MOC as a thinking tool.