I have a confession: my Second Brain hasn’t been working very well lately. The problem is the “Resources” stack, one of the four main buckets that are part of my PARA organizational system. It has ballooned to more than 100 individual notebooks, and I can’t even remember which ones exist. Which means the decision of…
By guest contributor Ergest Xheblati Recently I was asked by Tiago to see if I could do something interesting with his Instapaper article collection stored on Evernote. I had recently completed a similar project at work where I looked at product descriptions and generated tags from them. I thought I could do something similar for…
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…
By Tasshin Fogleman and James Stuber Introducing the Digital Productivity Coach – an interactive guide to digital productivity, available 24/7 to give you a concrete next step to improve your productivity skills. If you’re interested in improving your productivity, it’s not easy to identify where to start. There are dozens of tools and systems out…
I recently completed an intensive 10-week accelerator for online courses called Email Boss. The program was one of the greatest educational experiences I’ve ever had. I learned more about online marketing and persuasive psychology in 10 weeks than in the previous 6 years of trial and error in online marketing combined. In this article, I…
I recently spoke with Ozan Varol on his podcast Famous Failures. We talked about….what else? Failures! More specifically, we discussed: How Tiago quit his consulting position to pursue a career as an entrepreneur What you can do to prepare for being an entrepreneur Why Tiago’s first business venture was a massive success. How that massive…
I am a first-generation American, born and raised in Orange County in Southern California. I grew up in a mixed Brazilian and Filipino household with two brothers and a sister. Our home was filled with culture and the arts for as long as I can remember. My mother is a talented musician and singer who…
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…
I recently had a wonderful conversation with entrepreneur and online business evangelist Alex Beadon, on her popular podcast On Purpose. We talked about: How I started Forte Labs Where my inspiration comes from The levels of the Digital Productivity Pyramid The importance of Market Research and my process of getting it done How to get started…
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…
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