## First, a story: In September 2020, I emerged from a week-long hike in the woods of Maine with my brother and a friend. The world was burning and we were at peace. We made our way to the one open pizza shop in Millinocket, Maine. While we sat, drooling, waiting for our pizza, I opened my phone. Everyone was screaming for my attention! The news wanted my attention: **Trump or Biden**, **COVID Catastrophe**, my email wanted my attention, my podcasts wanted my attention ... The problem of the modern information economy had never been more clear, my eyeballs were the oil, and I was being drilled. Just as our earth has become unhealthy from our extraction, so was I becoming ill with my relationship with information. There had to be another way! The goal of this site is for me to [[create the conditions]] for me to create more than I consume. ## Welcome to the 🐓 Idea Farm _This is my [[Zibaldone]]. Like my life, my home can be with friends or family inside a warm living room by the fire or alone on a mountain under the stars. My personal north star is to live a fulfilling and interesting life while supporting others, with full awareness of my temporary time on this planet._ ## Vision and purpose _To make the most of my time by active participation in the things I am best at: working with a team, taking care of people in emergencies, helping people learn through challenging moments, and asking good questions._ **This project:** This project is to help me create more than I consume, to help me learn to make arguments in public, and to provide a resource page for my ideas. This is my personal blog and resource page. _It is a constant work in progress._ ## Who am I? I am a mid-career Emergency Physician/Simulationist living, playing, "farming," and practicing in central New Hampshire. I work as a people-grower and consultant in Boston, Massachusetts at the [Center for Medical Simulation](https://harvardmedsim.org) as the Director for Clinical Programs. By connecting this "messy pile" of ideas with my careers, I can grow more well rounded, thoughtful, and deep. Each of my goals needs [[balancing statistics]] - relationship-driven = Family, friends, colleagues, and community - creativity-driven = this site for collision and storage of ideas - [[Developing Values]]-driven - Productivity-driven = [[focus on the process not the goal]] - Sustainable-driven = [[right effort]] ## Core Practices *I remove unhelpful activities, instead of continuing to add to my life, I try to see what is unhelpful and [[remove to gain]].* I [[sharpen the saw]] after I cut the tree: I work on metacognition of my workflows and try to [[Identifying Reality]] as it relates to me and my [[Doing]] and behaviors. [[Time]] helps me know how I spend my most valuable resource. - My behavior is **the** powerful force creating the world I live in - To [[Change the World]] I need to change myself - [[change is the normal state]] - [[I haven't failed until I've blamed]] - [[Power Leaks]] reduce my freedom - [[right effort]] - [[be like water]] ## Creative and Scholarly Output ### Inbox of Ideas What is an idea? In [[Zettelkasten]], ideas are single concepts, and each idea gets a note. The Inbox of ideas holds my ideas, and the system cross-links them like wikipedia. I have built an automated system to keep refreshing my notes system. Refer to the "Inbox of Ideas" on the left for individual ideas, or to the "Idea Guides" for higher order combinations of ideas. ![[My most recent posts]] ### Idea Guides for example - [[Name-Claim-Aim]] - [[Mastery Learning]] - [[In Situ Simulation]] ### Podcasts: [Stimulus](https://roborman.com/category/stimulus/): by Rob Orman Physician Coaching [Taking the Suck Out of Documentation](https://roborman.com/stimulus/68-taking-th/) [Feedback can be hard to give and harder to receive](https://roborman.com/stimulus/93-feedback-can-be-hard-to-give-and-harder-to-receive-here-are-techniques-to-do-both-better/) [The Hidden Procedure](https://roborman.com/stimulus/100-the-hidden-procedure/) [Name-Claim-Aim](https://roborman.com/stimulus/123-how-to-create-a-team-in-10-seconds-why-time-is-not-linear-and-every-second-not-worth-the-same/) ### Fiction Writing [[The Stone Wall]] [[The spork, and how do I know?]] [[The Wind Kept Time]] [[Bunnietta Lacks]] [[Text Me!]] [[Moving On]] ## I want to create more than consume So, I have a workflow of information I try to use. ![[Lon's PKM Workflow V1.0.jpg]] [Lon's PKM Workflow 2022](https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO-jKy68=/) %% ![[2024 Reading]] ## What needs growing ![[🌱 Growing Notes]] %%