Bible Verse 📖

As Taylor Swift would say, “Everything has changed.”

The way we produce written content as a society changed many times over the course of history.

Written language. Writing tools. Software. Internet.

Now anybody can input a question or an idea into ChatGPT or any other natural language processing model and get paragraphs of content ready to be published.

The barrier to entry for writing is the lowest it’s ever been that I can tell.

Many people think that content quality will decrease. For example, anyone can “write” an article titled, “7 Tips for Maximum Productivity” and publish it on their own blog or website such as Medium, or even here on Substack.

However, I believe that content will get richer. Deeper. More human.

Those who write will increasingly see more competition for those basic articles and will move away from that type of content…

…and will start to tell better stories.

There’s the human element: experience. “My Take on Productivity as a Project Manager (with 3 years of experience)”, I’m betting, will become a more compelling read than an article from a generic, authoritative perspective.

Knowledge Working Tip 🛠️

I’ve just finished reading Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte. This is in my top 5 books. The ideas and methods, which I’ve been adopting on Tiago’s recommendation, have dramatically shifted the way I perceive and interact with information.

The PARA method specifically has had a big impact on me. At present, I’m reorganizing my company’s file management system to reflect a working model of information rather than a library-style approach.

PARA stands for Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. From left to right is the level of actionability. Information, I now believe, is meant to flow both with the projects I’m working on and the resources I need to become better in meaningful areas in my life.

I’ve organized my work and personal Google Drives to reflect this model as well as my notes app. Over the past six months or so I’ve seen that standardizing how I capture and organize information across platforms and tools has made a big difference. My cognitive ability to translate the information stored within into something expressible has increased.

It’s much easier to open one of the subfolders within the parent Projects folder and see all information I have pertaining to that project than to have to remember where all applicable resources are. When I have everything right in front of me I can think more clearly and quickly about the project at hand.

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Broc