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A Place for Everything - The organizational principle that every item should have a designated location, and items should always be returned there.
Agile Manifesto - A foundational declaration of values and principles for iterative, collaborative software development.
Amara's Law - We overestimate technology's short-term impact and underestimate its long-term impact.
Atomic Notes - The principle of creating notes that capture a single, self-contained idea.
Billboard Principle - Design communication to be understood in seconds, like a billboard seen while driving.
Boy Scout Rule - Leave things better than you found them.
Broken Windows Theory - Small signs of disorder lead to more disorder if not addressed.
Categories Are Limiting - Rigid categorization constrains knowledge connections and hinders the cross-pollination of ideas.
Center of Gravity Principle - A place where things you want to hang on to naturally find their way towards.
Compound Growth - Exponential growth where returns generate additional returns over time.
Compression vs Context Tension - The tradeoff between brevity and providing enough background for understanding.
Connected Notes - Notes that link to other notes, creating a web of knowledge.
Consistency - The practice of showing up regularly and maintaining steady effort over time.
Continuous Improvement - Ongoing, incremental improvement of processes, systems, and performance.
Data Minimization - The principle of collecting and retaining only the data that is necessary for a specific purpose.
Delayed Gratification - The ability to resist immediate rewards in favor of larger future benefits.
Digital Minimalism - A philosophy of technology use focused on intentionally choosing tools that support your values.
Do What You Said You Would Do - A principle of integrity and reliability - honor your commitments by following through on what you promised.
Documents Are Prisons for Ideas - Ideas trapped in long documents are isolated and unable to connect.
Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) - The principle of avoiding information duplication.
Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design - Shneiderman's foundational principles for creating effective and user-friendly interfaces.
Essentialism - The disciplined pursuit of less but better by focusing on what's truly essential.
Evergreen Notes - Notes that grow and improve over time through continuous refinement.
FILE Framework - Information should be easy to File, Identify, Locate, and Retrieve.
File Over App - Using open file formats to maintain control over your data independent of applications.
Forcing Function - Constraints or mechanisms that compel specific behaviors or outcomes.
The Four-Way Test - A non-partisan ethical framework developed by Rotary International to guide decision-making in business and personal life.
Gall's Law - Complex systems that work evolved from simple systems that worked.
Gates' Law - Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
Garbage In, Garbage Out - The quality of output depends on the quality of input.
Goldilocks Rule for AI - The principle that AI tasks should be neither too easy nor too hard to maintain engagement and optimal learning.
Hofstadter's Law - Things always take longer than expected, even accounting for the law itself.
Inbox Zero - Keeping inboxes empty by processing items to appropriate destinations.
Joy of Missing Out (JOMO) - The pleasure of stepping back and disconnecting from the constant stream of information.
Kaizen - The Japanese philosophy of continuous incremental improvement.
KISS Principle - Keep It Simple, Stupid - a design principle stating that systems work best when kept simple rather than made complicated.
Knowledge Compounds Over Time - Like compound interest, knowledge grows exponentially as ideas connect and build upon each other—but only with a system.
Knowledge Connectivity - The practice of linking and connecting pieces of knowledge to create a networked understanding.
LATCH - Five universal ways to organize information: Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, Hierarchy.
Law of Staleness - The value of information declines rapidly as it ages.
Less is More - The principle that simplicity and restraint lead to better outcomes than excess.
LIFT Principle - Locatable, Identifiable, Flat structure, Try to stay DRY.
Limit Work In Progress - Restricting the number of concurrent tasks to improve focus and throughput.
Lindy Effect - The longer something has existed, the longer it's likely to continue existing.
Linus' Law - Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
Matthew Effect - The rich get richer phenomenon where early advantages compound over time.
Meet Them Where They Are - Adapt your communication to the audience's current knowledge, context, and emotional state.
Memento Mori - The Stoic practice of remembering that death is inevitable, to live more intentionally.
Mindset Over Tools - Prioritizing methodology, habits, and mental models over specific tools in knowledge work.
Mise-en-place - Everything in its place - preparation before action.
Murphy's Law - Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Nemo Propheta in Patria - No one is a prophet in their own land - expertise is often more valued by outsiders.
Notes as Cattle, Not Pets - Treat notes as part of a dynamic, evolving system rather than precious individual artifacts.
Occam's Razor - The principle that simpler explanations are generally preferable to complex ones.
1% Rule - In any Internet community, 1% of people create content, 9% contribute, and 90% lurk - aspire to be in the top 10%.
Pareto Principle - 80% of effects come from 20% of causes - focus on high-impact activities.
Parkinson's Law - Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
Pauling Principle - The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.
Personal Manifesto - A written declaration of your values, principles, and guiding beliefs.
Personal Organization System Principles - Five key principles for building effective personal organization systems: safety, holistic design, life integration, simplicity, and agility.
Key Principles of a Good Personal Organization System - Five essential principles for building an effective personal organization system: safety, holism, integration, simplicity, and agility.
Privacy by Design - Building privacy protections into systems from the start rather than adding them later.
Reading Feeds Writing - Quality reading provides the raw material and inspiration that fuels effective writing.
Reciprocity - The social norm of responding to positive actions with positive actions.
Small Wins - Achieving incremental progress through manageable accomplishments to build momentum.
SOLID Principles - Five fundamental design principles for creating maintainable, scalable, and flexible object-oriented software systems.
Single Source of Truth (SSOT) - The practice of having one authoritative location for each piece of information.
Strong Opinions Loosely Held - Committing to a viewpoint while remaining open to changing it when presented with new evidence.
Sturgeon's Law - The adage that 90% of everything is crap, applicable to content, ideas, and creative works.
Success Principles - Timeless patterns and practices that consistently contribute to achievement across domains.
Summum Bonum - Latin for 'the highest good' - for Stoics, the highest good is virtue.
Teach Timeless Lessons - A teaching principle that prioritizes concepts, principles, and ideas that age well over time-sensitive information with limited longevity.
Technical Debt - The implied cost of future rework caused by choosing quick solutions over better approaches.
Test of Time - Time as a filter for relevance - what survives is likely valuable.
Vendor Lock-in - The situation where switching to a different tool or service becomes prohibitively difficult due to proprietary dependencies.
Verba Volant, Scripta Manent - Spoken words fly away, written words remain - the permanence of writing.
Writing Is Thinking - Writing clarifies thoughts - the act of writing is itself a form of thinking.
You Aren't Gonna Need It (YAGNI) - Don't implement functionality until it's actually needed.
Zen Productivity - A mindful, minimalist approach to productivity focused on simplicity and presence.

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