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Personal Knowledge Management

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The Compound Interest of Ideas

Feb 12, 2026

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2 min read

The Compound Interest of Ideas

Turn your static notes into compounding assets.

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Gavin m

Feedback Loop

Sweating vs. Building

Feb 5, 2026

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2 min read

Sweating vs. Building

If you cannot change the variables, you are just executing a function.

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Gavin m

Personal Knowledge Management

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Thinking starts at confusion

Jan 29, 2026

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2 min read

Thinking starts at confusion

Why a clean dashboard is often a sign of a stalled mind.

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Gavin m

Personal Knowledge Management

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The Ignition Point

Jan 22, 2026

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2 min read

The Ignition Point

Why fragmentation is fuel.

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Gavin m

Personal Knowledge Management

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Your AI talks too much

Jan 15, 2026

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2 min read

Your AI talks too much

Stop reading. Start interviewing.

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Gavin m

Personal Knowledge Management

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Volume Is Not Value

Jan 8, 2026

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1 min read

Volume Is Not Value

Why true signal is found in what you cut, not what you keep.

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writing

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The Bunker vs. The Lab

Jan 1, 2026

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7 min read

The Bunker vs. The Lab

Why protecting your ideas is actually killing them.

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Gavin m

writing

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The Living Note

Dec 25, 2025

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6 min read

The Living Note

Why a messy argument is worth more than a pristine archive.

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Gavin m
Beyond Tools: Thinking About Thinking

Dec 18, 2025

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6 min read

Beyond Tools: Thinking About Thinking

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Gavin m

writing

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Structure Scales, Attention Doesn’t

Dec 11, 2025

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6 min read

Structure Scales, Attention Doesn’t

Why I stopped cleaning my notes and started pruning them.

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Gavin m

Personal Knowledge Management

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Starting Without a Perfect System

Dec 4, 2025

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6 min read

Starting Without a Perfect System

Making space for clarity to grow from the work itself

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Gavin m
About last Thursday’s email

Dec 1, 2025

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1 min read

About last Thursday’s email

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Gavin m
The Death of the Perfect Tool

Nov 27, 2025

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6 min read

The Death of the Perfect Tool

What happened when I stopped chasing apps and started watching how my system behaves

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Gavin m

Personal Knowledge Management

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A PKM System That Survives Real Life

Nov 20, 2025

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6 min read

A PKM System That Survives Real Life

How I design my notes to work on distracted days, not perfect ones.

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Gavin m

writing

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From learning to output: a creator’s PKM flywheel

Nov 13, 2025

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6 min read

From learning to output: a creator’s PKM flywheel

Mapping the flywheel that turns a creator’s notes into consistent output.

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Gavin m

writing

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What Survived in My Notes System After 50 Newsletters

Nov 6, 2025

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5 min read

What Survived in My Notes System After 50 Newsletters

A quiet look at the habits that stayed useful once the system met real publishing

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Gavin m

Personal Knowledge Management

Gav’s Note #57 — Lessons from Creating Digital Products with PKM

Oct 30, 2025

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5 min read

Gav’s Note #57 — Lessons from Creating Digital Products with PKM

How a simple review habit evolved into a product studio.

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Gavin m

Personal Knowledge Management

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Gav’s Note #56 – The Notes That Keep Me

Oct 23, 2025

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6 min read

Gav’s Note #56 – The Notes That Keep Me

Not the most polished or linked — just the ones that remind me why I started.

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Gavin m

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Gav’s Note #55 – The Ones I Return To

Oct 16, 2025

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5 min read

Gav’s Note #55 – The Ones I Return To

How a few notes outlast the rest — and why return value matters more than structure.

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Gavin m

Personal Knowledge Management

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A Month Without Tags: What I Learned

Oct 9, 2025

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5 min read

A Month Without Tags: What I Learned

Simplification, surprise, and what remains when you stop organizing everything.

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Gavin m

Personal Knowledge Management

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From Cabinet to Lab

Oct 2, 2025

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5 min read

From Cabinet to Lab

How I stopped filing notes away and started experimenting with them.

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Gavin m
Stop Rushing Your Notes

Sep 25, 2025

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6 min read

Stop Rushing Your Notes

How slowness turns scattered captures into lasting insight.

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Gavin m
Why Atomic Notes Don’t Work Anymore

Sep 18, 2025

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5 min read

Why Atomic Notes Don’t Work Anymore

The golden rule of note-taking promised clarity. In reality, it’s killing momentum.

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Gavin m
Don’t Organize Notes. Develop Them.

Sep 11, 2025

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5 min read

Don’t Organize Notes. Develop Them.

Shift from tidy archives to dynamic ideas that keep moving forward.

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Gavin m
From Scraps to Products

Sep 4, 2025

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6 min read

From Scraps to Products

How small notes layer into frameworks worth sharing

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Gavin m
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