Books

How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens (goodreads.com)

This was a fascinating read on Zettelkasten note-taking techniques, with a few key takeaways from the book

  • Non-fiction writing is not simply a process of sitting down and writing an article or book straight from the thoughts in your head
  • You have to build your knowledge/fact base long term.
  • Zettelkasten (German for slip box) is a good approach for this.
  • Ones you have good enough knowledge/fact base referable, writing something good for publish is just about rephrasing, rearranging your notes.
  • Good, productive writing starts with good note-taking.
  • GTD (Getting things done) can’t be transferred directly in to insightful writing tasks.

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (goodreads.com)

I picked this one up because I really enjoyed the author’s previous book, The Martian, but unfortunately, this one didn’t meet my expectations.