## Your P2K Articles-15 ### Your P2K Articles  #### Metadata * Author: [[P2K]] * Full Title: Your P2K Articles * Category: #books #### Highlights * Dark force motivation: things like anger, rage, insecurity, need for attention, just accomplishment to show others I'm capable. Light force motivation: I just love the work, or I love the people I'm doing it with or the sheer curiosity of the question, or I know I can make this better even if no one else notices. (Location 52) * Afrofuturism is a fun and interesting subgenre of science fiction and philosophy:, but I kind of chuckle every time I see the word, because all futurism is actually Afrofuturism. Africa is literally the future of the entire world. Here is one of the two or three most important charts you will ever see: (Location 137) * I strongly believe that the future of search will be curated search. So often, when you're trying to find something on Google, you only find basic, general articles and ads. You don't find the gems you're looking for. Recently I've been using more Twitter and Reddit to search for articles and ideas. Teza is a great tool because you can search for people and get a good overview of their work. (Location 149) * "Each time you write a page, you are a writer. Each time you practice the violin, you are a musician. Each time you start a workout, you are an athlete. Each time you encourage your employees, you are a leader." - Atomic Habits (Location 208) * Writing Process Steps: Ideation - Passive Tracking - Active Outline - Active Idea Arbitrage - Passive Research - Active Writing - Active (Location 242) * There's a great tool called Draftback, which essentially lets you "go back in time to look over your own shoulder as you write". (Location 246) * If you're in a similar place of liberty to work on articles at your own pace, you may also consider making quality your north star. The point here isn't that you need to choose the same north star, (Location 268) * It's not just about being considerate. It's much harder to get attention on an article that is the same as thousands of others on the Internet. It's also hard to write a good article about something you don't care about (that's why writing was such a draining task in school). So you can do yourself, along with the rest of the world, a favour by simply considering, "What is something that I can uniquely contribute?". (Location 279) # Your P2K Articles  ## Metadata - Author: [[P2K]] - Full Title: Your P2K Articles - Category: #books ## Highlights - Dark force motivation: things like anger, rage, insecurity, need for attention, just accomplishment to show others I’m capable. Light force motivation: I just love the work, or I love the people I’m doing it with or the sheer curiosity of the question, or I know I can make this better even if no one else notices. (Location 52) - Afrofuturism is a fun and interesting subgenre of science fiction and philosophy:, but I kind of chuckle every time I see the word, because all futurism is actually Afrofuturism. Africa is literally the future of the entire world. Here is one of the two or three most important charts you will ever see: (Location 137) - I strongly believe that the future of search will be curated search. So often, when you’re trying to find something on Google, you only find basic, general articles and ads. You don’t find the gems you’re looking for. Recently I’ve been using more Twitter and Reddit to search for articles and ideas. Teza is a great tool because you can search for people and get a good overview of their work. (Location 149) - "Each time you write a page, you are a writer. Each time you practice the violin, you are a musician. Each time you start a workout, you are an athlete. Each time you encourage your employees, you are a leader." - Atomic Habits (Location 208) - Writing Process Steps: Ideation - Passive Tracking - Active Outline - Active Idea Arbitrage - Passive Research - Active Writing - Active (Location 242) - There’s a great tool called Draftback, which essentially lets you “go back in time to look over your own shoulder as you write”. (Location 246) - If you’re in a similar place of liberty to work on articles at your own pace, you may also consider making quality your north star. The point here isn’t that you need to choose the same north star, (Location 268) - It’s not just about being considerate. It’s much harder to get attention on an article that is the same as thousands of others on the Internet. It’s also hard to write a good article about something you don’t care about (that’s why writing was such a draining task in school). So you can do yourself, along with the rest of the world, a favour by simply considering, “What is something that I can uniquely contribute?”. (Location 279)