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Today's meditation:
On the value of tending your garden. [LinkedIn companion post]
I am well-known for my habits of gathering, organizing, and freely sharing knowledge.
In this sense, I take care to collect and cultivate seeds.
I have a fairly large knowledge management repository - which I have spent decades refining and continuing to capture notes, ideas, citations, bits of knowledge, research papers, profiles of interesting people (investors, leaders, scientists, researchers, innovators, creators, makers), news on various businesses and industries that I find interesting, emerging trends, experiments, techniques, problems/solutions, vendor product developments, etc.
My collection of research notes on interesting articles, papers, blog posts, news items, etc. - for each year - are personally curated - and massive.
Within the last hour, a request came in from a former colleague, asking for some suggested background reading on a very particular topic. I just sent him 16 specific recommendations.
That was possible because of my consistent discipline in developing a personal knowledge management practice.
On Friday, I had a mentoring call with a young undergraduate student who is planning to do some graduate study in Europe, with a keen eye to universities in Germany. I provided him a fairly lengthy list of PhD researchers and professors there (in my network, and in fields related to his studies), that I recommended he connect with on LinkedIn.
That was possible because I have invested time in building a professional network that spans the globe.
A good gardener does not sit idle. You must tend to your garden and nurture the soil - continuing to plant seeds - so that it may bring forth fruit and nourish others.
May your harvest be bountiful.
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