How do we deal with information overload? Build a second brain. #shorts

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·Nov 3, 2024

My message to you is that you need a second brain. A second brain is a personal system for Knowledge Management.

What is Knowledge Management? It's note-taking. It's saving little bits of material and content and information from both your physical environment, but more importantly, your digital environment to cultivate and retrieve and review it over time.

But there's something funny I've always noticed about knowledge work, which is we don't have a culture of systematic improvement. If you do any kind of skilled manual trade, you know the skills that you have to acquire to get better.

But when it comes to digital knowledge work, it's so abstract. It's so conceptual. Are you really getting better at managing your calendar? Are you getting better at taking notes? Isn't that how we're spending most of our time, most of our days?

And yet for most people, I don't think we're getting better at those things at all. Really, what we're looking for is bringing knowledge work down to a process that anyone can understand and therefore improve.

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