As I write this, I find my last two evenings in NYC to be a strange juxtaposition.
One night, I'm attending an interview for an author's new book, where the interviewer was a Pulitzer Prize winner, and I was the youngest person in the attendance by two decades.
The next night, I'm at Central Park attending a rowdy, high-octane public watch party for the New York Knicks. LOUD. Curses. Screaming. Clapping. (They won.) Here are a few pictures from standing in line and early in the evening.
I guess my takeaway is that we are multi-faceted people.
We can have interests that have almost nothing in common.
And that's fine.
LYT Book Update
I'm back, deep into the book. I've successfully carved out time to make writing a book the core focus for the rest of the summer, which is a good feeling.
Whenever I get into the book, good things happen. Whether it's distilling the better part of a decade of working with linked notes or using the medium of a book as an opportunity to encapsulate a new insight that I'm so excited for book readers to experience.
One of my favorite concepts, and one that is within the book, is the idea of translational ideation: how, when you have to move an idea from one medium to another, you can't help but evolve the idea. I've been feeling lucky in all of the times that I had to communicate the "Linking Your Thinking" corpus of ideas in live sessions, or through keynotes, or through the written word—through articles, essays, tweets, phrases, statements—or book proposals, and now books themselves. Oh, and let's not forget YouTube videos.
Each medium has different requirements, different constraints, and they allow an enthusiastic, devoted person a mechanism to evolve (and usually) improve their ideas.
Welcome to the LYT team, Chris Rodriguez!
Earlier this year, I put out a call to those interested in becoming LYT's Experience Coordinator. This is a new role designed to support our growing community while ensuring that the community maintains the highly connective and supportive qualities that thousands of our alumni members (in Knowledge Accelerator and LYT Workshop) have experienced over our six years.
Chris first joined Linking Your Thinking as a student in our Notemaking Mastery sprint and has leaned in ever since with so many thoughtful shares, showcases, and posts. Chris is doing really interesting knowledge work in Capacities lately, and we're all really excited to have her support our community and Knowledge Accelerator experiences.
To all of you who are in the LYT community, feel free to say hi to Chris in our announcement post or over in her new introduction share!
Here's to what's ahead