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In agreement: I think the coach John Wooden said ~ "The trouble with all the good new books, is that they keep us from reading all the good old books."

Edit: I have very many thoughts on this (at my web sites), and I use www.onemodel.org (AGPL, text-oriented, desktop) software to organize all those thoughts like you describe. But I need (sometime) to make it easier to install.

Edit2 (noted elsewhere but seems to apply here too): lately I have been thinking I have so many "actionable" ideas and things piled up in my notes, that I try (sometimes?) to read or note only those things that are >=85% likely to change my thoughts or actions for the better in the next 3-4 months; very questionable whether I am good at that, or whether it applies to other situations. YMMV.