Archive for the ‘Organization’ Category

December 13, 2009 3

The Electronic Side of Note-taking

By Robert Minto in Organization, Scholarship, Strategy

Given certain off-line comments I received in response to my recent post about note-taking, I thought that in order to be as useful as possible to interested readers I ought to write briefly about reference management systems.
So you take lots of notes—you write summaries and compile indices, focusing on your most important topics of interest, [...]

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November 17, 2009 1

Notes on Note-taking

By Robert Minto in Organization, Scholarship, Strategy

Ann Blair’s article “Note-taking As an Art of Transmission”, has finally kicked me in the direction of explicitly formulating my own method. My method has been developing over the past two years; now, I have finally achieved a level of technical proficiency such that I no longer look back on books and lectures with regret [...]

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September 4, 2009 0

Busyness & Human Nature

By Robert Minto in Man, Organization, Strategy

Pannenberg has been teaching me the past few days about human nature, via his remarkable book Anthropology in Theological Perspective. In the first section of the book, in which he surveys some recent developments in the notion of humanities’ uniqueness in nature, he introduced me for the first time to “human openness to the world.” [...]

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July 29, 2009 2

A Digression On Desks

By Robert Minto in Organization, Places, Strategy

I long ago discovered that a well-planned workspace is nearly as important as a well-organized mind. Someday, my plan is to build/buy a set of desk, bookshelves, and working tables that will perfectly conform to the ideal plan I have in my head. But until then I am limited to functioning within the workspaces I’ve [...]

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