This graphic covers the entire plain-text workflow for Cyborganize. You can get everything you need from this graphic alone. It’s large, so may have to zoom in to read the smaller text for the left & right brain loops. The only things this graphic doesn’t cover are: Desktop dashboard bells and whistles self tracking non-text …
In the previous page I explained the Snippet Loop “verticals” structure for managing your info flow. Now this “verticals” structure has one fatal flaw: Everything passes through BrainStormWFO. That means that everything gets chopped up and blended. This is fine as long as we are dealing with a couple of lines or paragraphs. But when we write longform documents, there’s a …
Above you see the Snippet Processing Loop. It’s like putting your ideas through a blender, then rearranging the tiny pieces into pyramids. Let me narrate what’s happening from the top. The little guy with the big eyebrows is you. You’re kinda intense. You’re either consuming or generating information. Your dotted eyes go to the “info source” …
A brainstorming session has three phases – “capture,” “resistance,” and “organization.” In the “capture” phase, you choose a topic and write down everything you can think of. Ideas will flow faster than your fingers can type. This will probably last for several minutes. In phase two, you begin to slow down. You may get stuck …
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[Video] Here’s a video with transcript (including pdf download) that covers 90% of the day-to-day Cyborganize use. It’s 17 minutes long and covers the entire execution loop, from scratch files to BrainStormWFO actionables model and back to the scratch file again. You can read the full text below or in the pdf, but for best results watch the video. Video …
I believe Cyborganize will transform the world. It holds the potential to liberate man from the chains of sullen stupidity that have bound him to mammalian herd dynamics for millenia. However, I also expect adoption to be very slow. In my opinion, Cyborganize is the first step towards genuine Intelligence Augmentation. When mind-machine interfaces are developed, …
The Creationist Michael Behe’s argument for irreducible complexity has been famously answered by an illustrated series of progressively more complex mousetraps. This purports to show how something so complex as an human eye could have evolved by functional intermediary stages. (image from here.) I do not intend to take sides in the evolution vs. creationism debate. …
It drives me nuts when people “halfway” get Cyborganize. They usually decide it might be a nice way to file their research. They’re totally missing the point. If you’re a PIM* junkie, you know the power of mind mapping. You can extrapolate what having a dynamically adjusting map of your brain would be like. Well, that stuff …
Cyborganize has the power to transform your life over time. To achieve this effect, you must be using all three loops – Execution, Snippet and Longform. The Execution Loop reveals your unconscious priorities, and continuously executes the most important tasks. The Snippet Loop builds a complete map of your reality. The Longform Loop coalesces your …
In this blog post, Cal Newport talks about the reasons for severe “laziness”, or total demotivation, which he calls “deep procrastination.” He finds this happens to many college students. Cal lists the following reasons for procrastination: 1. Fear (of both success and failure). 2. Perfectionism. 3. We think our work is of low quality. But the biggest, …