“Start small,” they said when I hesitantly brought up my intention to augment The Mechanics of Knowledge Management with audio content. Although I couldn’t agree more with the popular advice, I had to forgo it when the opportunity presented itself to interview one of the most influential figures of the PKM community, Mr
. How’s that for the first instalment of a series of audio posts?I’m still a rookie in spoken word, and it shows. You could hardly call it a professional interview, but Bob was cool about it. He played along and touched it ever so slightly to turn it into gold. Again.
If you still need to learn more about Bob and his craft, the best way to glimpse his writing world is through his official website. If you want the book (you do), this might be the best proxy.
In this friendly, improvised coffee chat, you’ll hear about the relationship to folders, writing under natural and artificial constraints, whether writing is for everyone, the capital mindset, Niklas Luhmann’s unapologetic style, Bob’s meta-writing, tools and toys and their role in your evolution as a thinker, some PKM controversy, the impact of artificial intelligence, Bob’s system for writing (of course) and much more.
I hope you’ll enjoy the show and will find it an hour well-spent.
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Niklas Luhmann, Zettelkasten, A System for Writing, How to Take Smart Notes, Antinet Zettelkasten, Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
This is just the first in the series of free-form discussions I was gifted. The casting of the following shows is just as surreal. Put your email in the box below. I want you to have access to them. They’re truffled with worthwhile gems I’ve never seen or heard from them elsewhere. You might be as surprised as I was.
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