Think Like a Librarian Podcast
Think Like a Librarian: Systems for Curious Minds aims to guide curious, ambitious people design humane systems for thinking, working, and creating — using librarian-grade frameworks.
Episodes
In this episode, you'll learn...
- Why weekly reviews are about visibility, not control—and how that changes everything
- How lack of regular calendar reviews can lead to preventable scheduling conflicts
- What weeding means in library science—and why your task list needs it too
- The MUSTIE framework for deciding what to let go of (Misleading, Superseded, Trivial, Irrelevant, Elsewhere)
- How to implement your own Weekly Revie...
In this episode, you'll learn...
- Why projects vs. areas in PARA is the single most important distinction to make, and why mixing them makes everything feel urgent all the time
- Exit criteria — what they are, why most projects don’t have them, and the one sentence that changes everything
- Why self-paced courses are a sneaky trap (and how to split...
Show Notes
Every time you name a file, a folder, or a note, you're making a bet that future-you will search for the same word you're using right now. This week's episode is about why that bet so often fails — and what librarians figured out centuries ago that can help.
We're talking naming conventions, controlled vocabularies, and five practical principles for naming things in ways that actually hold up over time.
In t...
What if the reason your perfectly planned day keeps falling apart isn’t that you need better time management — but that you’ve been measuring the wrong thing entirely?
We interact with systems every day without recognizing them as systems — calendars, chore charts, project trackers, workplace policies, fitness apps. And nearly all of them make the same flawed assumptions about human capacity: that our attention is consis...
In this episode, you'll learn...
- Why the “ideal learner” most courses are designed for doesn’t actually exist
- What librarians know about designing for real humans (hint: we design for patrons, not “users”)
- Smart questions to ask before you buy your next course
- How to build (or choose) learning systems that expect real li...
What if the key to feeling more organized, more creative, and less overwhelmed wasn’t another app… but a different way of thinking?
Welcome to Think Like a Librarian: Systems for Curious Minds — a podcast for curious, ambitious humans who want systems that actually work in real life.
In this launch episode, I’m sharing what it truly means to think like a librarian — and why librarian-style thinking goes far beyond libraries. We’re ta...
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Show Notes
Welcome to Think Like a Librarian: Systems for Curious Minds
What if the key to feeling more organized, more creative, and less overwhelmed wasn't another app… but a different way of thinking?
Welcome to Think Like a Librarian: Systems for Curious Minds — a podcast for curious, ambitious humans who want systems that...
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