through different resources related to your aim, whether it be a certain goal or for understanding a subject. The cross-pollination of perspectives and ideas is what gives you a decent understanding. Similar is [[Idea Emergence]] stage 3 where you combine separate ideas from different sources into one holistic focus. When [[Note-making]], you are already doing that by adding onto and updating [[Conceptual notes]]. It's also nice to explicitly review at the end, but the spontaneous and unexpected nature of it makes it so fun :) A collective version of [[Analytical Reading]] Once you choose books and have a rough outline after skimming their outlines: - Look for relevant highlights - [[Summarizing Content|Distill ideas]] beyond specific branding by authors, combine them into neutral concepts triangulated through the different perspectives - Done by stating ideas in your own words - Establish neutral propositions - What are the main propositions and arguments? - Can be guided by our own questions we want to answer - How can you make it neutral in terms of branding and your own bias or interpretation? - Summarize - Define issues - [[Skepticism]] - Patterns - Varying multiple answers to your question - Contradictions - Gaps - Assumptions - Implications ## Cultivation - We can do this already through [[Obsidian]], but we can take it one step further and have actual conversations that fit our affordances through conversing with AI like [[NotebookLM]].