Starting a new book: How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking by Sönke Ahrens

Starting a new book! How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking by Sönke Ahrens “…This is the second, revised and expanded edition. The first edition was published under the slightly longer title "How to Take Smart Notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers". The key to good and efficient writing lies in the intelligent organisation of ideas and notes. This book helps students, academics and other knowledge workers to get more done, write intelligent texts and learn for the long run. It teaches you how to take smart notes and ensure they bring you and your projects forward. The Take Smart Notes principle is based on established psychological insight and draws from a tried and tested note-taking technique: the Zettelkasten. This is the first comprehensive guide and description of this system in English, and not only does it explain how it works, but also why. It suits students and academics in the social sciences and humanities, nonfiction writers and others who are in the business of reading, thinking and writing. Instead of wasting your time searching for your notes, quotes or references, you can focus on what really counts: thinking, understanding and developing new ideas in writing. Dr. Sönke Ahrens is a writer and researcher in the field of education and social science. He is the author of the award-winning book “Experiment and Exploration: Forms of World Disclosure” (Springer). Since its first publication, How to Take Smart Notes has sold more than 100,000 copies and has been translated into seven languages. …”

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How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens - Book on the wish list

How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers Book added to my library based on the blinks and the interest I have on the subject in order to retain the most of the books/articles I read and podcasts and others I see and listen! Will start its reading pretty soon. “…How to Take Smart Notes (2017) is exactly that – an explanation of how and why to take smart notes. It explains how this simple, little-known, and often misunderstood technique can aid your thinking, writing, and learning. With the help of smart notes, you may never face the horror of a blank page again. …” https://www.blinkist.com/books/how-to-take-smart-notes-en?utm_source=bk_ios&utm_medium=bk_referral&utm_campaign=book%253Aplayer&utm_content=60fe5b446cee0700070a51c1&referral_token=b1174473fb42

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Leadership by Henry Kissinger - Blinks

After reading/listening to the blinks of this book i have added it to my wish-list. The blinks are a good way/tool to sort/prioritize the potential books to my library. “…Leadership (2022) is a detailed analysis of six monumental twentieth-century leaders. By examining both the circumstances that formed these leaders and the strategies they used to shepherd their respective nations through periods of turmoil, it presents invaluable lessons for anyone working to shape the world’s future. From Charles de Gaulle’s strategy of will to Anwar Sadat’s strategy of transcendence and beyond, it serves as a historical debriefing on some of the defining leadership strategies of the last century. …” https://www.blinkist.com/books/leadership-en-henry-kissinger?utm_source=bk_ios&utm_medium=bk_referral&utm_campaign=book%253Aplayer&utm_content=63078fd96cee070008972a17&referral_token=b1174473fb42

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How Math compares with History (and other sciences): a perspective.

A great post on the “MATHWITHBADDRAWINGS.COM” on how Math relates and compares with History as “science” (and also with other knowledge domains). Really like the VIz where you have in one extreme Math and in the other History and how several other social/hard sciences can be placed. Statistics should be, in my opinion, very close to Physics, but slightly above in far right of the chart! Enjoy! https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024/06/04/whats-the-opposite-of-mathematics/

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Finalized: Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty → by Ian Stewart

Finalized Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty → by Ian Stewart Book Rating - 3.5 / 5 Great book on the science of uncertainty, learnt several concepts, revisited others in great journey through the world of uncertainty or this uncertain World. Review to come shortly “…Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the transit of the planets contain the possibility of error. It's no wonder that, throughout that history, we have attempted to produce rigidly defined areas of uncertainty - we prefer the surprise party to the surprise asteroid. We began our quest to make certain an uncertain world by reading omens in livers, tea leaves, and the stars. However, over the centuries, driven by curiosity, competition, and a desire be better gamblers, pioneering mathematicians and scientists began to reduce wild uncertainties to tame distributions of probability and statistical inferences. But, even as unknown unknowns became known unknowns, our pessimism made us believe that some problems were unsolvable and our intuition misled us. Worse, as we realized how omnipresent and varied uncertainty is, we encountered chaos, quantum mechanics, and the limitations of our predictive power. Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty. …” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43522601

- Pedro

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Should Chinese EV be subject to steep tariffs?

The new America tariffs (100%) on Chinese EV are reasonable? The free trade benefits to the global economy will be put on hold? If the EV manufacturers are being heavily subsidized by China, there is WTO to tackle those issues (or it should if the appellate body was working) and the security reason is a double edge sword. What will Europe do? Lost in enacting the best regulation on this subject, but losing the sight of value generation? In fact, what we are seeing is that the Chinese EV manufactures are far ahead of the American and European’s manufacturers (in terms of value and price) but protecting this industry via tariffs, will protect inefficient industries, make them less competitive and complacent, create overall inefficiencies with the foreseeable trade retaliations and harm consumers. America’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs: bad policy, worse leadership https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/05/15/americas-100-tariffs-on-chinese-evs-bad-policy-worse-leadership from The Economist

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The relevance of being a good follower!

An interesting and insightful article on the importance of being a good follower. Everyone talks and writes about on how to be a leader, but if all are leaders, then who will you lead:-)? At the end of day, you are a more likely to be a follower than a leader (e.g. what is the CEO ratio to all employees?). Key traits to be a good follower: Proactivity Challenge the leader by thinking for yourself and present you point of views, Give constructive criticism, Be positive, Be energetic. In a nutshell. behave like a leader in waiting. Below you can follow the path to the Economist article on the subject :-). “…As the British Army, a rare example of an organisation that has an explicit doctrine of followership, puts it, “To follow effectively…is a choice.” …” How to be a good follower https://www.economist.com/business/2024/05/16/how-to-be-a-good-follower from The Economist

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