Note from Tiago: This is the first in a series of guest posts I hope to eventually publish, showing how knowledge management principles and techniques, from my course Building a Second Brain and elsewhere, can be implemented in a wide variety of software programs. Check out the Part 2 here. Getting Things Done (GTD) is…
The following is a collection of customer reviews, interviews, online articles, case studies, and other third-party sources related to my online course on Personal Knowledge Management, Building a Second Brain. For customer testimonials, click here. We’ll update it periodically with new links. Interviews Interview with Austin Brawner and Andrew Foxwell on The Ecommerce Influence Podcast:…
On 10/25/17 I delivered a talk at ReactiveConf, an annual conference held in Bratislava, Slovakia centered on the React Javascript front-end development technology and ecosystem. Here are a few followup resources: #1 The slides from the talk: #2 A followup blog post I wrote, presenting the same ideas in the context of massively increasing project throughput…
Someone once asked me a question: what would it take to multiply someone’s productivity by 100? It’s a more interesting question than the typical headlines you see online (3 Weird Tricks to 10x your Productivity!!!), because it’s so clearly out of reach using conventional approaches. No amount of planning, effort, or hours worked will even…
Note from Tiago: I recently received this unsolicited email from C. Wess Daniels, a graduate of Building a Second Brain. I’m publishing it here with his permission, with only minor edits for clarity. Comments in [brackets] are mine, and I’ve bolded the “juiciest” parts. Hi Tiago, I hope this finds you well. I’m writing to…
Check out my conversation with Srini Rao on The Unmistakable Creative podcast. Or read Doug Toft’s summary of the conversation here. It’s probably the deepest I’ve ever gone into the content of my course, of the same name: Building a Second Brain: Capture, Organize, and Share Your Ideas Using Digital Notes. Next round kicks off…
This article is a guide for getting started with PARA, an organizational system for your digital life.
Here’s the 5-step process I recommend you follow:
Step 1: Move existing files to a new folder called “Archive [date]” (with today’s date)
Step 2: Create folders for each of your current projects
Step 3: Move all the project folders into a new folder called “Projects”
What if you could push a button and immediately be given an idea?
Not just any idea. A good idea. An idea relevant to your interests, your goals, and your current projects.
What if every time you pushed this button, you also made it more likely that even better ideas would be surfaced in the future?
I’ve found a way.
These are participant testimonials for my online bootcamp on personal knowledge management, Building A Second Brain. Emphasis in bold is mine: “I absolutely LOVED the course. It’s changed the way I think. You have a gift of articulating thoughts & ideas…Your slides and visuals are amazing. The diagrams communicate the ideas and mental models at…
Here’s Part II of my interview on the official Evernote podcast, Take Note. We discuss my thinking on the power of provocation, what it means to “layer” knowledge, and dive deeper into the techniques I teach in my online bootcamp on personal knowledge management, Building a Second Brain (which starts July 17th). You can find…
I was honored to be interviewed on the official Evernote podcast, Take Note, a couple weeks ago. We discuss my approach to “small batch” productivity, follow up on my previous post about changing the value curve of our work, and of course, the latest round of my online bootcamp on personal knowledge management, Building a…
Last month I published The P.A.R.A. Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information. It describes a simple, lightweight, yet extremely flexible system for organizing any type of digital information across any platform.
The feedback I’ve gotten has been so phenomenal, I’ve made implementing P.A.R.A. the first unit of my upcoming online bootcamp, Building a Second Brain (BASB). It will be the foundation on which the rest of the course is built.
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