All about processing information
Uncovering my personal information stack: RSS, Twitter lists, and building a Wiki on Obsidian.
My Personal Information stack
Yesterday, I polled on Twitter. Enquiring, what to write next. Basing on results, this week’s post, atleast the 2 people who voted, is on my information processing stack.
I wrote it from how I started my process and the motivation behind it. There are many people who are better aware and have higher production quality to help you with the “How to” and the tools to use. Check out Ali Abdaal who has tons of recommendations and tricks with respect to tools.
It features:
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RSS, real simple syndication.
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Twitter lists are my medium of interaction with the Twitter network.
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Closes it off with building a Wiki on Obsidian.
My Wiki work is still in very nascent stages. Since, taking a break. I have decided to revisit all my stored articles and interconnect them on Obsidian.
Lastly, If you are looking to get access to all the sources that I read. I am happy to share the feed lists to anyone who replies to this email. It will get you started at my level.
Round up
Worflows, Media and routine recommendations
I had written a post in the early days of this newsletter documenting how I put all of this information to use. It holds up well.
It covers what devices, softwares and routines I follow for consuming information.
Recommendations of Newsletter
I ran a longish thread of recent Substacks and blogs that I followed on twitter.
Resurfacing it for anyone who wants to add some feeds to kickstart their RSS bandwagon.
Itching to do a recommendations thread of the RSS feeds that satiates my consumption needs
— V.S.Vivek (Not active over here anymore) (@vsvivek93) June 8, 2020
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By the way, you subscribe to “On the side” on RSS as well. Just open it on browser and scroll the bottom. You will find an RSS link to subscribe to the feed.
Links that resonated
I linked to this article in the main post as well.
It talks about details that we miss even if they are in front of us. Even reality has a lot of detail. He uses the example of building a ladder and boiling water. He ties it up to doing difficult things in your career.
Getting the right details is critical for success.
The more difficult your mission, the more details there will be that are critical to understand for success.
Information is powerful
Only true, if put to good use. In our case, for a clear outcome.
Time and time again I have made the mistake. I read so much that is of no use. Don’t do that mistake.
World wide web and the people creating on it truly have tons to share and it is not humanly possible to consume everything on it. Deciding why you want to build an information stack is more important.
Signing off till next time,
Vivek, bringing all orphaned nodes into the nexus.