PKM as self exploration

<n>Drowned in Information</n> by artist <n>Kshan21</n>.

<n>Goal Is Near</n> by artist <n>Nate Hill</n>.

Semilattice

An editorial image for the <n>Air Pack</n>.

<n>Lago</n> (2011) by <n>Felipe Cohen</n> at the <n>PIPA 2011 Exhibition</n>. Photo by <n>Pat Kilgore</n>.

### The Secret

#### Allow yourself to go down rabbit holes

A rabbit hole is not a distraction. A rabbit hole is your brain trying to tell you to pay attention to something you’re curious about. Ignore algorithmic rabbit holes.

#### If you see something, save something

Pay attention to what feels resonant to you. Save breadcrumbs and build a path for yourself to walk down later on. The ability to classify information in a personal way is a muscle worth exercising.

#### “Creativity is just connecting things”

Over time, build contexts for yourself and your ideas. Analyze what happens when you connect those contexts to someone else’s.

#### Remember

The goal is not self-improvement. The goal is engaging more deeply with the World.

a situation in which you become so interested in a subject or an activity that you cannot stop trying to find out about it or doing it: I know when I read a WWI novel I inevitably end up down a rabbit hole researching the war. You can kind of find yourself getting sucked into various attention rabbit holes.

Make a map of your personal concepts & ideas, then from here expand it with more concepts

A walkthrough of a research app user interface designed by <n>Udara Jay</n>.

A post by tech educator <n>Abi Bouhmaida</n> about collecting websites.

The user interface of <n>Heptabase</n>, a visual note-taking application.

Because there's an endless amount of data available to us and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow in.

<n>Allegory</n>, a generative artwork by <n>Atmajit Gohil</n>.

A garden is not an object, but a process.

The GIF 'imago' by artist <n>Konczakowski</n>, associated with the band <n>Tame Impala</n>.

The collage artwork <n>interdimensional travel</n> by artist <n>Cover Art Guy</n>.

@reneedefour @thecosmos Rabbit-holing = the constructive alternative to doomscrolling

Cover art for <n>Haruki Murakami</n>'s novel <n>Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World</n>.

"If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking."  

— Leslie Lamport

An analog collage by artist <n>Beth Hoeckel</n>.

A 2007 <n>Tree Drawing</n> by artist <n>Tim Knowles</n>, created by attaching pens to tree branches.

<n>Bird Twittering</n> (1980) by artist <n>Géza Perneczky</n>.

A digital reinterpretation of <n>Michelangelo Buonarroti</n>'s <n>Hands of God and Adam</n>.

Creativity is all about connecting things together.

<n>Cursor</n> by <n>Javier Jaén</n> for <n>The New York Times Magazine</n>.

A still of filmmaker <n>Agnès Varda</n> from her 2017 documentary, <n>Faces Places</n>.

Poet <n>Robert Penn Warren</n> in his Connecticut studio, 1954. Photo by <n>Robert W. Kelley</n> for <n>LIFE magazine</n>.