# PKM Summit Notes — 2026-03-20 *Transcribed from reMarkable handwritten notes (PNG export)* --- ## Page 1 ### Talk 1: Idea Management: Philosophical and Practical Implications of Managing Your Ideas (Not Your Notes) **Speaker:** Bianca Pereira **PKM** ``` Observe → Sensemake → Communication ``` **Problem:** too much information **Solution:** PKM ### PKM Pyramid ``` /\ / \ /TOOLS\ /--------\ / METHODS \ /------------\ / MINDSET \ ← beliefs ---------------- ``` **Documents → idea notes.** But what's an idea? ### Semiotic Triangle - **referent** (thing in world) - ↓ - **thought/reference** (thing in our minds) - └→ symbol **too much stimulus:** when we have a lot to focus on, we have to abstract more and more things and blur everything else. ### ✴ Actually, WE CREATE OBJECTS. **objects of attention** ### Impact on our notes? - If objects exist on their own, you can read something twice and get the same output. This isn't what happens. - → passive note-taking - Instead, **active note-taking/notemaking** - We should notice our objects of attention. We keep digging down on what we notice we're focusing on. - **organizing ideas is sensemaking** - We can't really say anything about reality. We can only talk about how we perceive reality. --- ## Page 2 **ideas:** smallest unit of thought text fragment **reductionism vs. complexity** - ↓ - biology - sum is more than the parts ❤️ Yay Bianca! --- ### Talk 2: Independent Thinking in the Age of AI **Speaker:** Zsolt Viczian! How can we retain our agency? **The quality of your life is proportional to the quality of the thinking you do every day.** We're turning to AI because it's very fast at understanding text, something our brains aren't natively good at. **David Kirsh:** Thinking evolved from the simulation of movement **We think in space:** - with eyes - with movement - in concrete objects **[Diagram]:** ``` me ♡ ⑥ ─┬─┬─ 3 ├─┼─ ⑤ 1 ├─┼─ 8 ② └─┴─ a ⑦ ``` *(numbered/circled items on left connected by lines to items on right with heart symbol)* **Designing Your Life:** WYSIATI *(What You See Is All There Is)* **Edward de Bono** has a lot of tools for exploring solutions **"Visual primitives"** **Anne-Laure:** Tiny Experiments **How the way we talk changes the way we work** --- ## Page 3 ### Talk 3: Robots in the Garden: Use AI to Augment (Not Replace) Your Thinking **Speaker:** Jorge Arango **Joan Westenberg:** "I Deleted My Second Brain" **Why?** - "I outsourced the act of reflection" - "An idea not encountered is one I might as well never have had" - deferring work to a future self that never arrived ### "Second Brain" ✗ — bad metaphor **Why?** — implies delegating thinking ### He prefers the metaphor of a garden: - it's a place, not a tool — you do things inside it - gardens for different reasons - they're also pleasurable per se - provides groundedness - there are things that grow later but it's also for **NOW** ### Ghost writer → thinker **Amanuensis:** between total rejection and total replacement - → scholar assistant **Crash Course in the Humanities** ("Learning My Note") ### AI Roles: 1. **Tutor** — help me understand 2. **Validator** — check my understanding and critique it - "Humans hallucinate" 3. **Connector** — identify themes/context 4. **Orienter** — prime me before I learn 5. **Recommender** — what other works should I consume (esp in other media)? 6. **Adversary** — prove me wrong/steelman the other POV 7. **Analyst** — apply lens/reading to a work 8. **Mapper** — visualize/map for me - github: jorgearango/llmapper-skill 9. **Reflector** — find patterns in my thinking ### TAKEAWAYS 1. Mind your metaphors. ✗ brain ✓ garden 2. Use AI to help you think and learn better 3. Think calm... and long term --- *Source: `/plugins/reMarkable/Daily/2026-03-20/` (PNG export)* *OCR processed: 2026-03-25 — Full content from PNG export after discovering PDF export truncation bug*