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Upcycle your Questions!

As adults, we start learning with questions. We can upcycle those questions to increase our retention. “Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value. ” Src: Wikipedia Did you ever forget soon […]

A practical guide to Lifelong Self-Directed Learning

Ambiance Yesterday night I shared the dinner table with 3 young Japanese at the backpacker’s lodge of Alice Springs. They just came back from Uluru and were on their way back to Japan. One faced me and asked. Could you share your trick for work? When I’ll be back in Japan, I start right away […]

How I organize my personal notes for long-term sustainable use

I keep a lot of notes, scanned documents and this since 2000. In 2004 I went totally paperless because I went for a World Tour. I had to be able to manage my business, customers, legal stuff and archives in a small volume. I manage today 60694 items in 30 GB just for the private […]

The Ideal PKM Week

Last week #PKMChat was on the ideal week for practicing #PKM. This post to collects the best contributions. For each tweet, you can click on the date to see the conversation around it. You can use those are actionable items to enhance your own practice. – Use transition times for exploration, seeking interesting news. – […]

Personal Knowledge Meze

A culinary metaphor A meze is a meal made of 6 or more small dishes common around Eastern Mediterranean sea. People pick from each dishes to compose their own meal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meze Personal Knowledge Meze is a good explanation of what is PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) and it shares the same Three Letter Acronym. Personal knowledge […]

The 3 Levels of Knowledge

The more I live in the Knowledge Management business, the more I realize that there is no common understanding of what is Knowledge. The more I try to define it, the more I realize it’s about connections and actions. Knowledge is alive, it must go on. Level 1: Facts Lists Many people confuse knowing and […]

How I build my PKM compass from my goals

I keep coming to this compass Idea. I wish to go back to it with some new ideas before we get into sorting incoming fragments. Having a compass is the way to make sure we stay on the right track as we keep discovering new ideas, reading new posts, receiving messages. It’s easy to be […]

Identifying what’s coming in

When I stopped thinking in term of Knowledge, the obvious alternative was to think in term of Information. Instantly I slip on step further to Information flows and what is coming to me. This post is a follow of A PKM Clean Start My goal here is to show how I identify each and every […]

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