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That’s because your sidewalk is bad. People want to follow the optimal route *for them. They don’t care about your ideals. These shortcuts are called desire paths.[64](private://read/01kdfwzjzyb4s7z0dyt8tsd4pg/backmatter003.xhtml#foot-64) They tell you how people want* to use the system.
If people don’t use your abstraction, it’s the wrong abstraction.
Scaling Fast
Swizec Teller
More is not better when it comes to thinking and creating. Distilling makes our ideas small and compact, so we can load them up into our minds with minimal effort. If you can’t locate a piece of information quickly, in a format that’s convenient and ready to be put to use, then you might as well not have it at all. Our most scarce resource is time, which means we need to prioritize our ability to quickly rediscover the ideas that we already have in our Second Brain.
Building a Second Brain
Tiago Forte
Many authors hope that securing a contract with a Big Four publishing house will provide more marketing and sell more copies of the book, but the reality is that traditional publishers are looking for a sure thing. They want an author who already has an existing platform and can guarantee an audience. And if the author has that, they might be better off going it alone.
The One Where Writing Books Is Not Really a Good Idea
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