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>If you had to set one metric to use as a leading indicator for yourself as a knowledge worker, the best I know might be the number of Evergreen notes written per day.

Oy.

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Knowledge workers are refrigerators:

    meals + information ⟶ knowledge + heat

A traditional measure of a knowledge worker is in papers/year.

To find a higher-frequency leading indicator, notes/day seems apropos.

(The heat above is generated at O(100W). Unfortunately that doesn't correlate well with knowledge produced, or we could just use it as a measure. Would an intermediate measure be drafts/week?)

Highly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rVHr6OwjI

Does number of lines of code deleted also count?

what's the problem with it? Isn't a good metric going to be numeric, kinda of necessity?...also since these are his personal notes, shouldn't we assume the "you" there means himself? So who's he keeping outside the gate?

I guess the biggest criticism is it promotes quantity over quality. Similar to counting lines of code or pages of a book written. Although I think it’s safe to assume in this case there is some implicit notion of minimum quality to consider a note “written”.

ah i see that and yeah after reviewing the concept of evergreen notes, I think your assumption is a safe one ...though the original post (pre-edit) was something like "oy using volume of notes written as a gatekeeper for knowledge work", which seems like a slightly different criticism of the statement.

I didn’t see the pre-edit version so did wonder where the gate keeping bit came from. That sort of uncharitable take is why I’d never put my notes online. I’d find it extremely stressful.

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