The worst piece of technology ever 🤬
The worst piece of technology ever?
My brain. I forget. I delay. I evade. I refuse. Most days I simply can't remember. Anything. At. All.
Organizing and organizational systems fascinate me. I've tried many and left even more behind.
I require trust in my own system. Adopting someone else's system just because it's a shiny new chicken has failed for me every time I've tried it.
I'm therefore a little surprised at how much value I've found the emerging field of Personal Knowledge Management.
If you're at all familiar with the term "Building a Second Brain," you'll know what I'm talking about.
If not, check out Tiago Forte's series on "Building A Second Brain."
The premises behind Personal Knowledge Management and "Building a Second Brain"?
We're inundated with information -- photos, music, blog articles, news articles, videos, and so on. This reality leads to the second premise of PKM. The brain is terrible at remembering things.
Hence the need for a second brain, our own personal library created using a naming and filing system that makes sense to us.
You can imagine my curiosity about building a second brain, considering how much I dislike my first one. Forte's PARA concept make sense to me, at least now anyway, and the flexibility of his system offers me enough autonomy that I can stick with it, building the trust necessary to keep moving stuff I want to remember out of Brain No. 1 into Brain No. 2.
Your mileage may vary, of course. 🤷
Until next time,
Jay