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<li><a href="/wiki/notes/BzaAaifsfEv5mTiEOFBPA">hasURL</a> <a href="https://jamesclear.com/inversion">https://jamesclear.com/inversion</a></li>
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<li>Great art breaks the previous rules. </li>
<li><a href="/wiki/notes/CMbFpqaj2FAdywZ8EoGlM">@carl-jacobi</a> made a number of important contributions to different scientific fields during his career. In particular, he was known for his ability to solve hard problems by following a strategy of <em>man muss immer umkehren</em> or, loosely translated, “invert, always invert.” </li>
<li>great headlines and titles use the power of inversion to up-end common assumptions
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<li>two of my more popular articles, <a href="https://jamesclear.com/goals-systems">“Forget About Setting Goals”</a> and <a href="https://jamesclear.com/power-of-environment">“Motivation is Overvalued”</a></li>
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<li>“What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you’re unreliable it doesn’t matter what your virtues are. You’re going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct.”
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<li><a href="/wiki/notes/qOYzKkv9pPV4PQHXcHMdG">attributedTo</a> <a href="/wiki/notes/TpGLnc9r54DJdmb0MEw0Y">@charlie-munger</a></li>
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<li>"Failure Premortem" aka "Kill the company"</li>
<li>fast forward six months and assume the project or goal has failed. Tell the story of how it happened. </li>
<li>Inversion 
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<li>forces you to treat your decisions like a court of law.</li>
<li>prevents you from making up your mind after your first conclusion.</li>
<li>a way to counteract the gravitational pull of confirmation bias.</li>
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Inversion

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Welcome! And beware!  

## Purpose

This vault is the "[[learning-in-public|ar.swyx.learn-in-public]]" part of my Second Brain. If you share some of my interests, please [reach out](https://djradon.github.io)! 

## Contents

- [[t]] my personal wikipedia
- [[idea]] (not necessarily mine)
- Resource Notes, including highlights, thoughts and metadata, for various things:
  - [[ar]] mostly articles, papers and web pages
  - [[book]]
  - [[community]]
  - [[course]]
  - [[event]]
  - [[game]]
  - [[loc]]
  - [[org]]
  - [[user]] 
  - [[prdct]] mostly software products, but also ontologies
  - [[recipe]]
  - [[video]] movies, tv episodes, youtube, etc
- [[vs]]
- [[wanted]]
- Some "Metadata Notes":
  - [[tags]] which may refer to any and multiple (or none) of the above
  - [[c]]: ways to categorize resources
  - [[p]]: ways to assert things about resources (mostly abandoned)

In terms of the [[t.km.zettelkasten]] method, this wiki is a commingling of literature notes with something @Sönke-Ahrens warned about: a "personal Wikipedia or a database" [^1]. 

In terms of [[t.tm.getting-things-done]], it's references, someday-maybe, next actions, and public projects.

## Beware!

This is a cluttered cupboard of jumbled jottings riddled with inaccuracies, confusion, and mistakes.

## What This Is Not

- evergreen-notes/digital-garden: for "synthesized" / original-ish publishable big-idea notes that should evolve over time, props to @andy-matuschak and @maggie-appleton
- blog: for "point-in-time" items to be shared: personal news, articles, etc.
  - e.g., [[ar.substack.carpe-noctem]]


[^1]: [[book.how-to-take-smart-notes]]  