Fleeting Notes
Fleeting notes in Zettelkasten are for capturing ideas while reading, listening, or thinking. They are designed to be short-lived and should be stored in an …
Articles in the permanent category
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Literature Notes
Literature Notes in Zettelkasten are notes which capture information from the source material in our own words. They are sometimes referred to as Reference or …
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Permanent Notes
Permanent notes (also known as Evergreen notes) capture a single "atomic" idea. They also include links to related ideas. In the Zettelkasten system, they're created …
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Survivorship Bias
Survivorship Bias is a common error of thinking where we arrive at false conclusions by only examining success cases.
For example, on one of my …
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Latticework of Mental Models
Charlies Munger advocates for building a "broad theoretical toolbox" that he calls a Latticework of Mental Models. The idea is to accumulate concepts from a …
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Teaching the whole game
Teaching the "whole game" uses the metaphor of baseball to highlight how common approaches to teaching are the equivalent of doing batting practice without ever …
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Topic Overview (Zettlekasten)
In Zettelkasten, the topic overview is a note that links to key Permanent Notesithin a topic. It is linked to via the index and …
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Adversarial Validation
A technique used to evalute how different the test set is to the training set, commonly used in Kaggle competitions to assess likelihood of a …
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Promotion vs Calibration
Some assume that the path to promotion is doing their current job well. However, promotion is about proving that you're capable of another job.
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