#11: 🔍 Zoom-In-Zoom-Out Thinking

Plus: digital exhaust, sensemaking, and workplace rules

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Hi friend! It’s time for another edition of Here’s What’s New On The Refined Mind.

It’s been a chaotic couple of weeks as I tackle chaotic client projects. Sadly this has left me with little time to explore my mind outside of client work and family care. That said, I dove in today for a couple hours and actually came up with quite a few updates and even two new notes I’ve been meaning to write for a while.

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Enjoy the links below and catch you on the interwebs.

‘Til next time!
Mike Tannenbaum | The Refined Mind

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2021-04-16 — Zoom-in-zoom-out thinking

• Added

  • New Rules for the Workplace

  • zoom-in-zoom-out thinking

• Updated

  • We have barely begun to see the effects of the fallout from this pandemic

  • digital garden

  • digital ecosystem

  • web of thinking

  • build a body of work

  • Non-linear writing’s ability to jump from sentence to sentence, idea to idea, changes the way the mind thinks through ideas

  • Obsidian is for tending my digital garden

  • Sensemaking and wayfinding are critical skills for thriving in 2020 and beyond

  • Data ≠ Insight

  • Black Lives Matter

2021-04-07 — digital exhaust

• Added

  • digital exhaust

2021-04-02 — digital ecosystem

• Added

  • digital ecosystem

• Updated

  • these notes are written for myself

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Revisiting updates from the last newsletter

2021-04-01 — New tools for visual thinking + the patriarchy at work

• Added

  • Whimsical is for visual thinking

  • Notion as an organized workspace

  • the world of work was not designed for working parents

  • think in terms of inputs and outputs to design better processes

• Updated

  • my digital ecosystem

  • A knowledge worker’s toolkit needs to be well-rounded

  • journey maps are tools not outcomes

  • Share ideas before they’re ready

  • learn in public

This visual from my last email has been holding up well with one major change: I’m trying to ditch Roam and go all in on Craft.