Overview
The “Overview” shows the main knowledge structures of the Gestalt Garden. If this is your first time exploring my ideas and reflections, this is the ideal starting point :-)
You can also explore the Gestalt Garden through the lists of posts, notes, and tags.
Table of contents
1. Productivity
(Personal) productivity is the ability to achieve your goals effectively and efficiently.
- To grow is to be able to tackle more complex problems
- Separate task and project management
- The strength of a collective in one person (only spanish)
- What is valuable is reality, not its label
2. Creativity
Creativity is the ability to do novel, valuable work with outcomes that are hard to measure and that doesn’t follow a set of predefined steps.
- Learn to enjoy the creative process (only spanish)
- The toughest lesson of my PhD (only spanish)
- The myth of the collaborative genius
- Internalise the myth of the collaborative genius
3. Writing
Writing is the ability to convey knowledge in writing and, moreover, to think through writing.
- Why writing is a tool for better thinking (only spanish)
- Three tips to start (enjoying) writing (only spanish)
- Writing is not a linear process (only spanish)
- Resist the temptation to publish without editing
4. Zettelkasten
The Zettelkasten method allows you to create an integrated thinking environment. But unlike other methods, it not only copes well with complexity: it thrives on it.
- How we discovered the Zettelkasten method
- To grow is to be able to tackle more complex problems
- Don’t categorize your notes by type in Zettelkasten (only spanish)
- How to make time for your Zettelkasten
- The Zettelkasten Method: The search for the ghost in the box
- Field Report #1: How I processed zone 2 training with my Zettelkasten
5. My creative projects
The goal of this section is to show you the creative projects that I have developed (or am developing) publicly at the Gestalt Garden.
Apoptosis, my collection of short stories
“Apoptosis” is my first collection of short stories. I already have all the texts written, and now I’m editing and formatting them. It’s a creative project with a lot of meaning for me.
List of short stories published to date:
- “El mosaico en la cristalera” (only spanish)
- “La carta bomba” (only spanish)
You can read more about this project on the following pages:
- I'm going to publish my first story
- Which license should I use for my first story?
- I have published my first fiction story!
- The following story of Apoptosis
- Process the MICE coefficient with Mary Robinette
- How I finished my first fiction story
Work Diary, the reading habit
The “Work Diary” is a series of articles where I share what it’s like to work on a creative project.
I started this diary with the idea of writing a shortbook about the habit of reading. Along the way, I greatly improved my own reading practice and also learned a lot about two note-taking methods: Zettelkasten and Build a Second Brain.
One of the most important insights I had is that reading more doesn’t necessarily mean generating more value. Reading is important, but it’s not the activity that creates value in and of itself. What really generates value (and is the most limiting factor) is your ability to integrate what you read into your life.
Currently, this project is on pause. On one hand, I have other personal and professional projects that I’m prioritizing. On the other hand, I feel like I started this project during a very early Imitation phase of Shuhari. The benefit of that is the project has helped me improve a lot—in fact, that was its main goal—but I feel that if I want to move forward with it, I need to go deeper into the Interpretation phase in order to offer a truly useful shortbook.
You can read all the diary entries here.