writing → thinking → doing

I don’t really believe “knowledge work” even exists. (And if it does, it is definitely being made irrelevant by LLMs.) But, I do believe “thinking work” exists.

I don’t really believe “thinking” is in contrast to “doing.” When they say, “Measure twice, cut once” or “If I had 60 minutes to cut down a tree, I would spend the first 40 minutes sharpening the ax” I believe they are highlighting how important the thinking is to the doing.

I don’t really believe there is a more effective way to think, than to write.

And that is how tk.xyz has slowly and then very quickly become my favorite way to get things done. It is my favorite space to write, which means it is my favorite space to think, and all of this thinking is generating a lot progress and momentum.

I have a note that is drafted daily by the TK assistant, based on public news and weather searches, as well as private searches across all of my notes. It infers and reveals tasks, it caries forward my work, confirms my priorities and intentions, and prompts me for new insights and discoveries. I capture voice notes while I’m walking and after my calls, and transform them into something more useable when I sit down. I cross-link all my thinking like all the Zettelkasten (wikified notebooks) tools. I can ask TK to help me write skills that TK can then use to solve problems and inspire solutions in my writing. (Yes, very Inception.) And, whenever I am in that magical flow state of thinking while writing, and find myself reaching for a fact or definition or citation or example or confirmation of an assumption, I can just leave TK a note in the text to dispatch the agent to go figure out whatever information is just out of reach, LEAVING me in the flow state to keep thinking.

What is the result of all this thinking? Clarity. Structure. Evaluated, challenged, and sharpened ideas. Sometimes the page itself is the work that needed doing. Othertimes the page is a much clearer roadmap and guidebook for the steps ahead. Either way, I am writing → thinking → doing at an exciting pace.

I am lucky enough to be a member of the TK Ambassador team. They ask me to write honestly about my experience using the product, but don’t review/approve the content or pay me for it.