## Resources ## Notes/Brainstorming ## Publishing Copy Welcome to another edition of _Weekly Wondering_, a sacred time where I share the resonating links, reflections and learnings from my past week to influence your next one ;) This newsletter is my version of learning and thinking in public, giving me time to expand on ideas that may turn into more refined content in the future. If you want to see more of my ideas (or to learn about who I am if you're new here), you can head to my [digital notes garden](https://notes.johnmavrick.com/). ### ✨ In My Life #### 10,000 subscribers ! I'm honored to have this many people care about what I have to say despite my inconsistency in uploading 😊 Until the end of my internship I won't be able to put my 100% into content creation, especially since I prefer to make more original content on my own which takes time, but I hope the waits are worth it :) #### New video! At the start of this week, I shared my reasoning for restarting my Obsidian vault. Surprisingly enough, I uploaded this video just for the more personal aspect, not expecting it to statistically perform well, but it's ended up being the 2nd best performer out of my 10. Crazy how that works 🤯 This is only going to be the start of more introspective content once again - optimizing for meaning, not statistics in a YouTube landscape full of spectacles and imitated content ;) You can check out the video here:  #### Next AI video update I finished the script for the next AI video :) Last time I was still deciding on what kind of structure the video should have since Tiago Forte's CODE method didn't sit well, but now I've found the Zettelkasten method to be a perfect framework for organizing introducing the prompts. I did want to finish recording and uploading this week, but I've been busy watching a professional major tournament for my favorite game VALORANT (. Despite barely playing the game the past few months, watching some of these matches has been the most awe I've felt in a while so no regrets from straying a bit from my productive self 🤪 For an example prompt you can start using, you can look to the **_🚀 Actionable Tingz_** part of the newsletter! ### **🔗** Links to Thinks Lately I've been learning a lot from [every.to](https://every.to/), a curated content network for people interested in business and tech. It has unique ideas related to AI, science-based self-improvement, philosophy, pretty much all the things I'm interested in hehe 😁 Here are two links I found insightful: #### The Ultramarathon Mindset Seeing as I haven't had the most disciplined mental recently, reading about the Ultramarathon mindset has given me a simple, psychology-based toolset to help me persevere during any challenging times throughout the day. You can check out my full notes and the link to the article in [[The Ultramarathon Mindset]] #### A Non-Definitive Guide to Non-Duality Once again, I'm writing this at 2 A.M. and have work tomorrow, so you can just [check out the rest of my key takeaways](https://notes.johnmavrick.com/my-inputs/my-articles/a-non-definitive-guide-to-non-duality/) 👍 [[Surpassing the self when working out]] ### **🚀** Actionable Tingz #### Enhancing PKM practices through generative AI I know I literally made a video talking about how personal knowledge should be personal, but the inspiration you can get from ChatGPT's responses is 🤯 Most PKM practices are made to turn you into the role of ChatGPT - to ask yourself different questions from different perspectives to generate ideas and unleash your creativity. But now that we have access to an AI-powered second brain, we can offload these thought-provoking questions to ChatGPT to instantly generate fuel for thought and stay in flow 🤩 Out of the different prompts in my AI workflow, these are the two I been using the most. **Brainstorming potential conceptual notes from my highlights** Using ChatGPT, we can organize our highlights based on potential conceptual notes for inspiration: ``` Please list out the title of zettelkasten conceptual notes I can make based on these highlights. They should be atomic, creative, and be connectable to other conceptual notes. Under each conceptual note, list out the highlights related to it. Here is an example: [[Title of concept note]] > Highlight 1 > Highlight 2 Here are my highlights: {highlights} ``` _Be sure to replace {highlights} with the highlights_ You can see the example response [here](https://chat.openai.com/c/07bbb7b4-1ca4-440c-9efa-68d0d42d1e91) (don't mind the extra conversations past it, that was just testing 😅) **Brainstorming new and diverse links** _I got the foundation of this prompt from [zettelkasten.de](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/creative-thttps://zettelkasten.de/posts/creative-technique-within-zettelkasten-framework/echnique-within-zettelkasten-framework/), and just tailored it to the AI workflow_ In the idea compass framework, each direction represents a type of link you can make from a note - North links try to find the source or parent of the note - West links find similar notes - East links are for transformation, for finding constrasting ideas and challenging the note - South links are for what this causes, the more specific parts of the note ``` I am writing a note titled {note title}, and want to use the idea compass methodology to find new ideas to connect it to. the idea compass is as follows: imagine the four compass directions. each direction helps give definition to the idea in different ways. NORTH: “Where does X come from?” what are its origin? what group/category does X belong to? what exists an order of magnitude higher? zoom out. what gave birth to X? what causes X WEST: “What is similar to X?” what other disciplines could X already exist in? what other disciplines could benefit from X? what are other ways to say/do X? SOUTH: “Where can X lead to?” what does X contribute to? what group/category could X be the headline of? what exists an order of magnitude lower? zoom in. what does X nurture? EAST: “What competes with X?” what is the opposite of X? what is X missing? its disadvantage? what could supercharge X? Imagine you are linking to other similar wikipedia-style articles that focus on one main idea. These "articles" should be broad and brief in title. what are some possible NORTH links you could make? Explain your reason for choice for each link. ``` You can see an example prompt and response [here](https://chat.openai.com/share/448ad7b2-39dd-42cf-8481-5f20363b5d72). If you want, you can also customize it to add the highlights to make the connections more specific, but I found the generic ones to already be good inspiration for further topics to make notes on. ### 😤 My Ramblings [[Is it just me or do a lot of people not like their jobs]] [[Authenticity in branding]] ### My Tools for Learning and Growth I write and collect my newsletter content all inside Obsidian, my favorite note-taking and productivity app. If you want to try using it for yourself, you can get my [free beginner templates and 4-day email course](https://free.johnmavrick.com/obsidian-templates). 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