Thank you for being part of this journey, Community, an intended series of essays where I share my thoughts and experiences about communities emerging from PKM (personal knowledge management endeavors) and cohort-based courses (CBCs).
I consider this PKM Interplay - where I have cobbled the various sources of approaches, methods, and philosophies about PKM - directly, indirectly, and even seemingly unrelated.
Upcoming essays will be repurposed from content I have shared within CBCs, emails to friends, and excerpts of transcribed conversations (thanks Otter!).
WHY THIS series of essays
The spark to initiate this series is the 20 January 2022 Linking Your Thinking Launch Party - described as -
Learn the art of Linking Your Thinking.
1. Build your custom, future-proof PKM system
2. Become a better thinker
3. Experience more joy and find more Flow when thinking
4. Get feedback from other diverse and brilliant minds
It is one part of my PKM interplay. Other contributions I recall off-hand since college -
Paper planners since the mid-1980s while in college - think Day Runner (my first planner) and Day-Timer
Franklin Covey Planner in the early 1990s, along with The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Project management tools that were still served up on floppy disks - think Harvard Project Manager and Microsoft Project
Handheld devices - think PalmPilot, Handspring, HP Jornada 540
Web and digital apps for to do/tasks, taking notes, cloud storage - so many to name like Springpad, Evernote, Any.do, Trello, etc. blah blah so many
Getting Things Done by David Allen
During a servant leadership course in mid-2010s), introduced to PKM via Harold Jarche’s PKMastery and the first time I heard the term sensemaking
What I’ve coined as Brackish Swimming - interacting in an environment where distinct or disparate entities meet, which is in-real-life bidirectional opportunities for relationship building
BASB, Building a Second Brain, via Tiago Forte’s Forte Labs (Tiago on Twitter)
LYT, Linking Your Thinking, via Nick Milo (Nick on Twitter)
In short, LYT is part of my PKM workflow. I still continue to use pen/paper, various digital tools, and in-person interactions. AND this is also where community comes in - meeting folks in CBCs like BASB and LYT, as well as self-paced courses like PKMastery,
Drop by here and there
I intend to share about my PKM journey and as the next LYT Workshop 7 enrollment closes 25 January and then starts on 08 February.
And yes, I will join the next BASB cohort and PKMastery cycles, time permitting!