Framing problem

• Reading non-fiction book: you are not reading the book, but you are extracting knowledge from the book: electronic or printed medium
• Watching learning video: extracting knowledge from the video medium
• Reading blog/article: extracting knowledge from blog or article

Why this framing is important?

• It’s [mental] work (even if it’s enjoyable activity)
• work requires [enabling capabilities]: infrastructure, office, team (or lack of distraction), tools. Popcorn would not do if you are going to take notes, pen and paper may be better. Or YiNote extension.
• Goal. Why do you spend time on it? Knowledge is a perishable item, how are you going to apply it?

So there are two parts:

1. We extract knowledge
2. We apply knowledge

Stay tuned for more on the topic

Written on March 6, 2021 by Alex Mikhalev.

Originally published on Medium