The Knowledge Graph says you don’t have to use your conviction and will to execute risky and time-consuming, linear projects (which will fail if your conviction is wrong). All you have to do is take cute little notes all the time, and the hard work is magically done for you!
I don't think the knowledge graph says this in so many words, but the author sure hears it.
It seems not to have occurred to him that for any topic, the loudest people on the internet are not necessarily worth listening to. Nor are they even representative of the larger group (see Twitter).
PKM has its share of grifters. I mean grift in a gentle sense, like someone who becomes successful by writing a book on how to be successful. I wish them inspiration and success.
They're selling people solutions for problems, but the problem has near infinite solution space because the problem is "how do I process information effectively?"
So what we get is individuals marketing their take on this ultimately rather personal question. It's marketing that makes them highly visible to people like the author. They're among the first personalities we encounter when one
start searching on PKM (is this a good thing? I'm not sure).
I would tell the author the good news: the users without vlogs are doing just fine. You haven't heard from them because they aren't trying to grow an audience, but they're seeing added value in their lives as a result of PKM.
It's obvious that the author has no use for PKM in his understanding of it. I just don't think he's bothered to understand it as anything beyond a self-help topic.
It seems not to have occurred to him that for any topic, the loudest people on the internet are not necessarily worth listening to. Nor are they even representative of the larger group (see Twitter).
PKM has its share of grifters. I mean grift in a gentle sense, like someone who becomes successful by writing a book on how to be successful. I wish them inspiration and success.
They're selling people solutions for problems, but the problem has near infinite solution space because the problem is "how do I process information effectively?"
So what we get is individuals marketing their take on this ultimately rather personal question. It's marketing that makes them highly visible to people like the author. They're among the first personalities we encounter when one start searching on PKM (is this a good thing? I'm not sure).
I would tell the author the good news: the users without vlogs are doing just fine. You haven't heard from them because they aren't trying to grow an audience, but they're seeing added value in their lives as a result of PKM.
It's obvious that the author has no use for PKM in his understanding of it. I just don't think he's bothered to understand it as anything beyond a self-help topic.