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1-1-1 Method - A simple evening journaling practice: 1 win, 1 challenge, 1 gratitude.
Two-Day Rule - A habit maintenance strategy where you never skip a habit two days in a row.
20-20-20 Rule - Every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds to reduce eye strain.
ABCDE Framework for Storytelling - A structured framework for crafting compelling stories using five essential elements: Action, Background, Conflict, Development, and Ending.
And But Therefore (ABT) Storytelling - A narrative structure using 'And, But, Therefore' to create compelling stories.
Action Triggers - Specific cues or situations that prompt desired behaviors automatically.
Active Listening - Fully concentrating on what is being said rather than passively hearing.
Active Reading - Engaged reading with note-taking, questioning, and reflection.
Active Recall - Retrieving information from memory as a learning technique.
AI Mega Prompts - A technique of concatenating multiple notes and documents into a single comprehensive file to provide rich context to LLMs.
Anchor Attention - Using a stable object like the breath to steady and ground a wandering mind.
Annotation - The practice of adding notes, comments, highlights, and marks to content for understanding and reference.
Anti-Goals - Explicitly defining what you want to avoid - paths, risks, results, and experiences you're not willing to accept.
Appreciation Practice - Regular activities focused on noticing, valuing, and acknowledging the good in life.
Argumentation Mapping - Visual representation of arguments showing claims, evidence, and logical relationships.
Atomic Tasks - Breaking work into the smallest actionable units for easier completion.
Attention Diet - Deliberately controlling the information and stimuli you expose your attention to.
Attention Gym - Regular practices for building and maintaining attentional fitness and focus capacity.
Attention Management - The practice of deliberately controlling where attention goes rather than letting it be captured.
Attention Training - Practices designed to improve attentional capacity, control, and flexibility.
Autogenic Training - A self-hypnosis relaxation technique using mental suggestions of heaviness and warmth.
Backlinks - Automatic links showing all notes that reference a particular note.
Backlog - A prioritized list of all desired work items for a product or project.
Batching Strategies - Different systematic approaches to grouping similar tasks together for improved efficiency and focus.
Bidirectional Linking - Links that automatically show connections in both directions, displaying what links to a note.
Biological Prime Time - Identifying and leveraging your natural peak energy periods for your most demanding cognitive work.
Blind Carbon Copy - An email feature that sends copies to recipients without revealing their addresses to other recipients.
Block References - Links that point to specific blocks or paragraphs within notes rather than entire documents.
Body Scan Meditation - A mindfulness practice of systematically directing attention through body parts to develop awareness.
Brain Dumps - The practice of quickly emptying your mind onto paper or screen.
Brainstorming - A creative ideation technique generating many ideas by suspending judgment.
Building in Public - Sharing your entrepreneurial journey openly - learnings, struggles, milestones, and metrics.
Burndown Chart - A visual graph showing remaining work over time to track sprint or project progress.
Calendar Blocking - Scheduling specific blocks on your calendar for different types of work or activities.
Camera Confidence Tips - Practical strategies to feel more confident and natural when recording videos.
Capture Habit - The trained behavior of immediately capturing thoughts, ideas, and information.
Capture on the Run - The practice of being always ready to capture ideas and thoughts whenever and wherever they arise, not just at your desk.
Chain-of-Thought Prompting - A prompting technique that encourages LLMs to break down complex problems into step-by-step reasoning, improving accuracy and reliability.
Chain of Thought - A prompting technique where AI models reason step-by-step rather than jumping to answers.
Chunking - Grouping information into meaningful units to enhance memory and comprehension.
Closing Open Loops - Strategies and mindsets for completing unfinished tasks, reducing mental clutter, and achieving cognitive freedom.
Cognitive Complexity - A measure of how difficult code is to understand, complementing cyclomatic complexity with human readability factors.
Cognitive Defusion - Creating distance from thoughts to reduce their impact on behavior.
Cognitive Reappraisal - Reframing a situation to change its emotional impact.
Concept Maps - Visual diagrams showing relationships between concepts.
Conflict Resolution - The methods and processes used to facilitate peaceful ending of workplace disagreements.
Counterfactual Thinking - Imagining alternative scenarios and 'what might have been' to learn from past decisions and improve future ones.
Counting Blessings - The practice of regularly enumerating things for which one is grateful.
Critical Path Method - A project scheduling technique identifying the longest sequence of dependent tasks.
Daily Gratitude - The habit of practicing gratitude every day through structured reflection or expression.
Daily Standup - A brief daily team meeting to synchronize work and identify blockers.
Data Synchronization - The process of maintaining consistent data across multiple devices or locations.
Day Theming - Assigning specific themes or focus areas to each day of the week to reduce context switching.
Decision Hygiene - Systematic practices for reducing noise and bias in judgment without targeting specific errors.
Decision Journal - A systematic practice of recording decisions and their context to improve judgment over time.
Decision Minimalism - Reducing daily decisions to preserve mental energy for what matters most.
Decision Tree - A visual tool that maps out decisions, their possible outcomes, and the probabilities or consequences of each path.
Decisional Balance - A psychological technique for systematically weighing the pros and cons of making a change.
Deep Learning - A subset of machine learning using neural networks with multiple layers to learn complex patterns from data.
Deep Reading - Sustained, focused engagement with complex texts that enables rich comprehension and critical thinking.
Deep Work Schedule - A systematic approach to scheduling protected time for cognitively demanding work.
Default Diary - A pre-planned schedule template that represents your ideal allocation of time for recurring activities across a typical week.
Delegation - The process of assigning responsibility and authority for tasks to others.
Dense Linking - The practice of creating many links between notes to maximize connectivity and discoverability.
Descending Action - The phase of a story after the climax where tension decreases, consequences unfold, and meaningful takeaways emerge.
Design Sprint - A five-day structured process to rapidly solve problems and test ideas through prototyping.
Devil's Advocate - A designated role for challenging assumptions and arguments to improve group thinking.
Digital Detox - Intentional periods of disconnection from digital devices and online platforms to restore mental clarity.
Distraction-Free Writing - Writing environments and practices designed to eliminate distractions and support flow.
Divide and Conquer - Breaking a complex problem into smaller, manageable sub-problems.
Drafting - The stage of writing where you get ideas down without worrying about perfection.
Eat the Frog - Tackle your most challenging or dreaded task first thing in the morning to build momentum and avoid procrastination.
Editing - Refining writing at the sentence and word level for clarity, precision, and style.
Elaboration Strategies - Learning techniques that connect new information to existing knowledge through explanation and examples.
Elaboration - Processing information deeply by connecting it to existing knowledge.
Elaborative Interrogation - Learning by asking 'why' and 'how' questions about information.
Empathic Listening - Listening with the intent to understand the speaker's perspective and emotional experience.
Energy Audit - Assessing what activities, people, and contexts give versus drain your energy.
Energy Management - The practice of optimizing and allocating your physical, mental, and emotional energy rather than just managing your time.
Engineer Serendipity - Deliberately increasing the likelihood of fortunate discoveries through intentional actions and connections.
Engineering Credibility - The strategic process of building trust and authority through three types of credibility: implied (content quality), perceived (external validation), and earned (demonstrated expertise).
Environment Design - Shaping your physical and digital surroundings to make desired behaviors easier and unwanted behaviors harder.
Environment Staging - Preparing your environment in advance to reduce future decisions, increase productivity, and maintain calm under pressure.
Evening Routine - A structured sequence of activities to end your day and prepare for tomorrow.
Experience Stretching - Extending the happiness from positive experiences through anticipation, savoring, and reminiscence.
Expressing Gratitude - Communicating appreciation to others through words, actions, or gestures.
Failure Analysis - Systematic examination of failures to understand causes and prevent recurrence.
Failure Resume - A document listing one's failures, rejections, and setbacks alongside lessons learned.
Few-Shot Learning - Training or prompting AI with just a few examples to perform new tasks.
Feynman Technique - A learning method based on explaining concepts in simple terms.
Fine-Tuning - Customizing pre-trained AI models by training them further on specific data or tasks.
Five-Minute Favor - Adam Rifkin's concept of helping others in ways that take little time but create significant value.
Five-Minute Rule - A productivity technique where you commit to working on a dreaded task for just 5 minutes, often creating enough momentum to continue.
Five Whys Technique - Asking 'why' repeatedly to drill down to the root cause of a problem.
Focus Music - Audio specifically designed or selected to support concentrated work.
Focus Protection - Deliberate strategies to defend focused work time from interruptions and distractions.
Focus Rituals - Consistent practices that signal and support the transition into focused work.
Focus Sprints - Short, intensive periods of maximum concentration on a single task.
Focus Triggers - Environmental or behavioral cues that reliably initiate focused concentration.
Focused Attention Meditation - Meditation practice concentrating on a single object, typically the breath.
Freewriting - A technique of continuous writing without stopping, editing, or self-censoring.
Gamestorming - Using game-like activities and structures to facilitate creative collaboration and problem-solving.
Gamification - Using game elements like points, badges, and competition to increase engagement in non-game contexts.
Giving Feedback - The skill of providing constructive information to help others improve their performance.
Goal Setting - The process of defining objectives and creating plans to achieve them.
Gratitude Exercises - Structured activities designed to develop and strengthen gratitude capacity.
Gratitude Habits - Regular, automatic practices that cultivate and express appreciation in daily life.
Gratitude Letters - Written expressions of thankfulness to specific people for their positive impact.
Gratitude Meditation - Meditation practices focused on cultivating feelings of appreciation and thankfulness.
Gratitude Practice - Intentional activities designed to cultivate and express appreciation for life's positives.
Gratitude Prompts - Questions or statements designed to stimulate grateful reflection.
Gratitude Rituals - Recurring ceremonial practices that formally incorporate gratitude into life or work.
Habit Stacking - Linking new habits to existing ones to leverage established neural pathways.
Happiness Habits - Regular practices scientifically shown to increase sustained wellbeing over time.
Happiness Practices - Specific activities and exercises designed to cultivate greater wellbeing and life satisfaction.
Highlight of the Day - The single most important task or activity for your day; completing or making significant progress on it should be enough to feel good about your day.
Hook, Context, Main Points - A content structure: grab attention, provide background, deliver key takeaways.
Hub Notes - Central notes that connect many other notes, serving as navigation points in a knowledge network.
In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) - A content curation format for resurfacing valuable content that may have been missed.
Your Ideal Day - A visualization exercise to design what your perfect day would look like.
Ideal Schedule for the Day - A time management practice of designing an optimal daily schedule to guide time allocation, while accepting that disruptions will occur.
Ideal Schedule for the Week - A time management technique of designing a realistic yet optimistic weekly template that reflects your priorities and creates intentional time allocation.
Identifying System Constraints - Practical techniques for discovering bottlenecks and limiting factors in any system, enabling targeted improvements where they matter most.
If-Then Planning - Creating specific plans linking situations to actions: 'If X happens, I will do Y.'
Implementation Intentions - A planning strategy using if-then statements to specify when, where, and how you will perform a behavior.
Index Notes - Notes that serve as entry points or directories listing links to related notes by topic.
Information Fasting - Deliberately abstaining from information consumption to clear mental clutter and reset attention.
Information Filtering - Systematic processes for screening and selecting relevant information while blocking noise.
Information Triage - Rapidly sorting incoming information by urgency and importance to allocate attention effectively.
Interleaving - Mixing different topics or problem types during study sessions.
Inversion Thinking - A mental model that approaches problems backward by thinking about what could cause failure.
Jigsaw Method - A collaborative learning technique where each student becomes an expert on one piece and teaches others.
Journaling Prompts - Questions and prompts to guide reflection and overcome blank page syndrome.
Just-in-Time Learning - Learning what you need precisely when you need it.
Kaizen Group - A team of people dedicated to applying continuous improvement principles to products, processes, or organizations.
Knowledge Curation - The selective gathering, organization, and maintenance of valuable knowledge resources.
Knowledge Rollover - Carrying forward important information from one review period to the next to prevent knowledge loss.
KPIs - Key Performance Indicators that measure progress toward important objectives.
Leitner System - A flashcard-based spaced repetition method that sorts cards into boxes based on mastery level.
Life Audit - A systematic review of all life areas to identify what's working, what's not, and what needs to change.
Linked Thinking - The practice of connecting ideas through explicit links to develop and navigate understanding.
Loving-Kindness Meditation - Metta practice cultivating compassion and goodwill toward yourself and others.
Marginalia - Notes, comments, and marks written in the margins of books and documents.
Marie Kondo Your Digital Life - Applying Marie Kondo's tidying principles to digital spaces - keeping only what sparks joy and serves a purpose in your digital environment.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) - An 8-week program using mindfulness meditation to reduce stress and improve wellbeing.
Me Note - A personal documentation note containing information about yourself, your health, challenges, and personal details.
Memory Palace - A mnemonic technique using visualization of familiar locations to encode and recall information.
Mental Contrasting - A goal-pursuit strategy that alternates between envisioning desired outcomes and confronting obstacles that stand in the way.
Meta-Learning - Learning how to learn - understanding and optimizing your learning process.
Mind Maps - Visual diagrams for organizing information hierarchically from a central topic.
Mindful Eating - Full attention to the experience of eating - taste, texture, hunger cues, and the act of nourishment.
Mnemonic Devices - Memory aids that use patterns, associations, or imagery to make information easier to remember.
Map of Content (MoC) - Curated navigation hubs that organize and connect related notes.
Momentum Building - Creating forward motion through small wins that generate energy for larger efforts.
Monotasking - Deliberately focusing on one task at a time rather than attempting multitasking.
Morning Routine - A structured sequence of activities to start your day intentionally.
Most Important Task - Identifying and completing your highest-impact task early each day.
News Diet - Intentionally limiting or structuring news consumption to protect attention and mental wellbeing.
Noise Cancelling - Strategies and tools for managing auditory distractions to improve focus and productivity.
Noting Practice - Mentally labeling experiences as they arise to maintain awareness and prevent getting lost in thought.
One-on-One Meetings - Regular private meetings between managers and direct reports for relationship building and support.
Open Awareness - A meditation style of non-focused attention, allowing whatever arises to come and go freely.
Orphan Notes - Notes that have no incoming links from other notes in the knowledge base.
Outlining - Hierarchical organization of ideas using indentation and structure to plan or capture content.
Performance Reviews - Formal assessments of employee performance, typically conducted annually or semi-annually.
Periodic Journaling - Regular, scheduled journaling practice at daily, weekly, or other intervals.
Periodic Reviews - Regular reflection sessions to review progress and plan ahead.
PIE Writing - A paragraph structure technique using Point, Illustration, and Explanation to create clear, well-organized paragraphs.
Planning Fallacy Mitigation - Strategies and techniques to combat the tendency to underestimate time, costs, and complexity in planning.
Pomodoro Alternatives - Alternative time-structured focus techniques beyond the standard 25-minute Pomodoro.
Positive Self-Talk - Intentionally using supportive, encouraging internal dialogue to improve mindset and performance.
Post-Focus Review - A brief review after focused work to capture progress and prepare for next session.
Pre-Commitment - Making decisions in advance to avoid using willpower in the moment.
Pre-Focus Routine - A sequence of actions performed before focused work to prepare mind and environment.
Pre-Mortem Analysis - A risk assessment technique that imagines a project has failed before it begins to identify potential causes of failure.
Premeditatio Malorum - The Stoic practice of negative visualization - imagining worst-case scenarios to build resilience.
Pretesting - Testing yourself on material before learning it improves subsequent learning, even when you get answers wrong.
Processing by Elimination - Prioritizing what to remove rather than what to keep.
Productive Laziness - The practice of finding the most efficient path to accomplish goals by eliminating unnecessary work.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation - A technique of systematically tensing and releasing muscle groups to induce physical and mental relaxation.
Progressive Summarization - A layered highlighting method to distill information over time.
Project Charter - A foundational document that formally authorizes a project and defines its scope.
Prompt Lazy Loading - An AI design pattern that defers loading detailed prompt instructions until they are actually needed.
Protecting Time - Actively defending blocks of time from interruptions, requests, and competing demands.
Prototyping - Creating preliminary versions of products or ideas to test concepts and gather feedback.
Putting Thoughts on Trial - A CBT technique that systematically examines and challenges negative or distorted thoughts by evaluating the evidence for and against them.
RAIN Technique - A mindfulness practice for difficult emotions: Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture.
Rapid Experimentation - Running quick, low-cost experiments to test ideas and learn before major investments.
Rate of Revelation - The pace at which you reveal new information - keep it high to maintain engagement.
Receiving Feedback - The skill of accepting, processing, and acting on feedback to accelerate personal growth.
Receptionist AI Design Pattern - An AI architecture pattern using a lightweight coordinator to route requests to specialized AI agents.
Reciprocity Ring - A structured exercise where people make requests and offer help within a group.
Refactoring Notes - Restructuring and improving notes without changing their essential meaning.
Retrieval Practice - Using testing and recall as a learning strategy, not just an assessment method.
Reverse Goal Setting - A technique of working backwards from ambitious goals by imagining who you need to become to achieve them.
Revision - Reworking writing at the structural and conceptual level to improve ideas and organization.
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) - A training technique that aligns LLM outputs with human preferences by using human feedback to guide model behavior.
Root Cause Analysis - Problem-solving method focused on identifying fundamental causes rather than symptoms.
Satisficing - A decision-making strategy of accepting a 'good enough' option rather than seeking the optimal solution.
Savoring - The practice of deliberately attending to and enhancing positive experiences.
SCAMPER Method - A creative thinking technique using seven action prompts to generate new ideas by transforming existing concepts.
Scatter Focus - Intentionally letting your mind wander to generate ideas and make plans.
Server-Side Rendering - A web rendering approach where HTML is generated on the server for each request before being sent to the client.
Single File Component - A component architecture where template, logic, and styles are co-located in a single file.
Single-Tasking - Focusing completely on one task at a time rather than attempting to multitask.
Sitting with Discomfort - Building capacity to tolerate unpleasant experiences without immediately reacting or escaping.
Sketchnoting - Visual note-taking that combines hand-drawn elements, typography, shapes, and text.
Skimming - Rapidly reading to get an overview of content structure and main points without full comprehension.
Skip-Level Meetings - Meetings between senior leaders and employees who don't report directly to them.
Slow Reading - Deliberate, mindful reading that prioritizes depth of understanding over speed or volume.
Small and Riskless Bets - Making many small, low-risk experiments instead of betting everything on one big project.
Spaced Repetition - A learning technique that reviews information at increasing intervals.
Speed Reading - Techniques aimed at increasing reading speed while maintaining adequate comprehension.
Sprint Planning - A collaborative meeting where the team selects and plans work for the upcoming sprint.
Sprint Retrospective - A team meeting at the end of each sprint to reflect on process and identify improvements.
Sprint - A fixed-length iteration in Scrum where a team completes a set of committed work.
Stakeholder Management - The systematic process of identifying, analyzing, and engaging project stakeholders.
Starting Ritual - A consistent routine that signals the transition into focused work mode.
Static Site Generation - A web building approach where HTML pages are pre-generated at build time rather than on each request.
Steelmanning - Engaging with the strongest version of an opposing argument rather than the weakest.
Stoic Exercises - Practical techniques from Stoic philosophy for building resilience and wisdom.
STOP Technique - A mindful pause practice: Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed.
Story Points - A relative estimation unit measuring the effort and complexity of user stories.
Storytelling - Using narrative techniques to communicate ideas, engage audiences, and make content memorable.
Stress Inoculation - Controlled exposure to manageable stress to build tolerance and coping skills for future challenges.
Structured Feedback - A systematic approach to giving feedback that is specific, actionable, and constructive.
Structured Procrastination - Using procrastination productively by working on important tasks while avoiding the most important one.
Stub Notes - Placeholder notes created to mark topics for future development.
Sunday Reset - A weekly preparation and planning ritual performed at the end of the week to set yourself up for success in the coming week.
Supervised Learning - A machine learning approach where models are trained on labeled data with known correct outputs.
Tagging - Adding keywords or labels to notes for categorization and retrieval.
Task Batching - Grouping similar tasks together to reduce context switching.
Task Weights - Assigning abstract weight values to tasks to understand their relative size compared to other items in a backlog.
Templates - Pre-defined structures that standardize note creation and boost consistency.
Temptation Bundling - Pairing an activity you want to do with an activity you should do to make productive behaviors more enjoyable.
The 10 Percent Target - Whatever you want most in life, make 10 attempts - getting comfortable with failing 90% of the time builds resilience and skill.
Thank You Notes - Brief written expressions of gratitude for specific actions, gifts, or kindnesses.
The ONE Thing - Focus on the single most important task that makes everything else easier or unnecessary.
THIEVES Pre-Reading Strategy - A structured skimming technique using an acronym to preview texts before deep reading, improving comprehension and retention.
Think-Pair-Share - A collaborative learning structure: individual thinking, partner discussion, then class sharing.
Three Good Things - Reflecting on three positive events each day to build gratitude.
Time Audit - A systematic process of tracking and analyzing how you spend your time to identify patterns, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
Time Blocking Variants - A comparison of three related time management techniques: task blocking, timeboxing, and day theming, each offering different approaches to structuring your schedule.
Time Boxing - Allocating a fixed time period to an activity, then stopping when time expires.
Today I Learned (TIL) - A daily practice of documenting and sharing small learnings.
Top of Mind Note - A note tracking current priorities, projects, and focus areas.
Touch Typing - A typing technique where typists use muscle memory to locate keys without looking at the keyboard, enabling faster and more accurate text input.
Transfer Learning - Applying knowledge from one domain to accelerate learning in another.
Transition Rituals - Routines that mark the shift between different work modes or between work and rest.
12 Favorite Problems - Maintaining a list of important questions that guide your learning and work.
12 Favorite Questions - A framework of guiding questions to drive curiosity and learning.
Two-Minute Rule - If a task takes less than two minutes, do it immediately.
Ulysses Contract - A pre-commitment device where you bind your future self to a decision made in a moment of clarity.
Unsupervised Learning - A machine learning approach where models find patterns in data without labeled examples or predefined outcomes.
Urge Surfing - Riding out cravings or urges mindfully without acting on them, watching them rise and fall like waves.
User Stories - Short descriptions of features from the user's perspective used to capture requirements.
Values Clarification - The process of identifying, examining, and prioritizing your personal values.
Velocity - A measure of the amount of work a team completes during a sprint, used for planning.
Version Control for Notes - Using version control systems like Git to track changes, backup, and sync personal notes.
Vision Board - A visual representation tool to define and manifest a hazy direction for your future.
Weighted Decision Matrix - A quantitative tool for evaluating options by scoring them against weighted criteria.
Work Cycles - Structured periods of focused work alternating with breaks for sustainable productivity.
Work In Progress (WIP) - Ongoing work that should be limited to maintain productivity and avoid system overload.
Working Agreements - Explicit team agreements about how members will work together and treat each other.
Zero-Shot Learning - AI performing tasks based on instructions alone, without any specific examples.

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