Part 1 - The foundation: Understanding what’s possible

Chapter 1 - Where All Started

It starts with Writing Things Down, and then you can share them.

Chapter 2 - What is a Second Brain

• Information is the fundamental building block of everything you do.
• A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
• Rethink note-taking, using notes as personal knowledge building blocks.
• A note is a knowledge-building block, a discrete unit of information interpreted through your unique perspective and stored outside your head.
• Create value instead of killing time.

Chapter 3 - How a Second Brain Works

• What kind of jobs would you hire your second brain for?
  • Make ideas concrete.
  • Generate new associations between ideas.
  • Incubate our ideas over time. To prevent recency bias.
  • Sharpening our unique perspective.

Ideas to explore:

• Quantify Self Community
• Commonplace book
• The Extended Mind (book)
• Memex