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Can Atomic Ideas Grow On Their Own?

PKM zealots assume that the act of note-taking will create emergent properties by making singleton notes. But how does one prove this? Is note-taking worth the effort? Some potential ideas to test: * What is the half-life of any particular note? Meaning, when do the contents of a note become useless?

content-creation

The Output of a Knowledge Worker is Process

Some types of work result in physical artifacts being produced -- farming produces food, chemistry produces chemical compounds. But what is the output of a knowledge worker? What is the output of a writer, a programmer, or an analyst?[1] There are physical artifacts left behind from these professions --

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