types
types
types

>> It Begins You would not be wrong to describe me as a tool hopper.

Kanban

Scrum

Meetings

Planning

Note taking

Testing

Spaced repetition

Free recall

Learning

At least long enough for us to know whether, or how, to act on them.

Often, I suspect, we should let our dreams be dreams!

So, I want to breakdown the types of thought activity we perform and weigh them against the “tools for thinking” out there.

As I spend more time thinking, about thinking, I suspect my reasoning for jumping often is that I’m not good at distinguishing between the type of thinking I want to perform.

Generally I’m so engrossed in my goal, or some desired outcome, that I’m not pausing to consider what I need to do to reach there - other than, well, just doing what I (think I) need to do to get there!

Ideation

Ever on the hunt for the..

Brainstorm

Writing

Dreaming

Reading

Thinking

question
which tools best support which type of thinking?

question
which outcomes do each tool/type lend themselves toward?

question
when do we transition from one thought mode to another? Do we always need to?