Inside the Mind of a Productivity Master

They're trying to be too comprehensive, and saving every conceivably good point from a book rather than just a good set of the ones that resonate.

Knowledge, I think, is highly informal. It's contingent. It's fluid. It is very context dependent, so it doesn't make sense to spend time on all of that. It's really like just doing barely enough to get it through those stages of capturing, organizing, distilling so then you can start expressing.