The Trap I Recently Felt Scared of Falling Back Into
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FROM:
Scott P. Scheper
One American Plaza
Downtown San Diego, CA
START TIME:
Wednesday, 8:43 pm
Dear Friend,
I'm going to pick up where I left off yesterday in No. 182.
To catch you up, I found myself a few months ago sucked into the world of something called "PKM". Or "Personal Knowledge Management".
The tool that took up my time is called "Obsidian".
The same exact ideology of Atomic Workflow seems to have gripped the imaginations of those enthralled with the world of personal knowledge management, aka "PKM".
And, simply put, I found myself taking the whole Atomic Design methodology and taking it into over-drive in applying it to PKM.
Yet after much time spent, I felt the same feeling I had about the so-called productivity niche. The productivity and life hacker crowd plagues the PKM crowd. They end up spending so much time working on workflows to better their work, which yields the paradoxical result of guess what? Correct! Doing less actual work!
Well on that Sunday afternoon I wrote the passage I outlined yesterday.
I felt myself falling into the complexity trap for the hundredth time——heck, probably millionth time!
I was worried and fearful all of my recent hard work and progress getting out of my depression and into a productive lifestyle of consistently crushing it, and writing every single day, was now at risk.
Why?
One word: complexity.
Yet I held out hope that the "solution", as I put it, "may be achieved this week [after] reading the new book that recently arrived, called..."
...called something I'll give you the title of tomorrow! Reason being, I need more time to tell you what happened soon after that.
OK, now for the real reason... I get a kick out of teasing you with cliffhangers. (Yes, I'm literally laughing at you). I feel no shame! But really, I want to make sure you show up tomorrow and keep me company!
So until then, my friend,
Always remember...
To stay crispy, my friend.
END TIME:
Wednesday, 9:07 pm
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