In this wide-ranging conversation, I spoke with Michael Skiba, who participated in the very first cohort of Building a Second Brain in January 2017. He talks about how he’s continued using and developing his Second Brain over that time. Our conversation includes: How he uses his digital notes to maintain a side gig as a…
This is a recording of a live question & answer session for the upcoming cohort of my online course Building a Second Brain. I run these cohorts 3-4 times per year, taking a group of students through the entire course via weekly Zoom calls and Slack office hours. Enter your email address here to be…
I’m very proud to announce the Second Brain Week of Reflection, a 5-day immersive seminar dedicated to exploring the deeper implications of “building a second brain” for individuals and society. From May 17–23, 2020, Lauren and I will host 10 people at the Chateau d’Orion, a guest house and cultural center at the foot of…
I recently joined Erik Torenberg on the Venture Stories podcast. We had a very wide-ranging conversation including: Why productivity is not an end in and of itself Why content creation (not just consumption) is integral to your career How to better deal with the 11 hours of media a day that the average person consumes…
By Tasshin Fogleman Building A Second Brain (BASB) is an effective default for personal knowledge management (PKM) in the digital era. But outsourcing our creative thinking to a second brain has its pitfalls. A robust memory can be a useful supplement to digital PKM systems. Contrary to Tiago’s assumptions, memory is not a useless, outmoded…
I’m very proud to announce version 9 of Building a Second Brain, open for enrollment starting now. To celebrate hitting the 1,000 student milestone last month, we are making the biggest upgrade to the course in two years. You can see all the new features we’re adding here (there’s too many to list here). They…
Last year I received an intriguing message from someone who called himself “The Efficient Librarian.” He had recently completed my online course Building a Second Brain, and said he wanted to talk about a collaboration. This mysterious sender turned out to be Doug Crane, writer of The Efficient Librarian blog and director of the county…
Here’s an excerpt from a short guest appearance I made for the Discover Praxis community, on how a Second Brain can be a springboard to a successful and fulfilling career.
Here is a 45-minute presentation I delivered at Francesco D’Alessio’s virtual conference ProdCon 2019.
How does it feel to have a Second Brain? It feels like raw power. Like energy coursing into my mind and body from every source of information I have access to. Like the world is made of ideas, and I have a key to its underlying reality. It feels like I am the master of…
Now available in Spanish. If I had to give everyone one piece of advice for improving their productivity and learning, it would be “principles over prescriptions.” Every tip and tactic has a shelf life, and will someday become outdated. Even the most cutting-edge new app will eventually lose relevance. The history of managing ideas reveals…
This is a complete, 2-hour video recording of a live workshop on the Building a Second Brain methodology. It was delivered in Mexico City to a group of students of Collective Academy, by Tiago Forte, Lauren Valdez, and David Perell. For more information on the online course, visit http://www.buildingasecondbrain.com.
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