I’m unbelievably proud to announce the inaugural Second Brain Summit, taking place October 3–4, 2024, in Los Angeles, California! We’re gathering 500 of the most dedicated experts and practitioners of personal knowledge management in the world’s creative capital with three goals in mind: To meet other like-minded people and see that we’re not alone To…
When it comes to storing and organizing digital information, photos are in many ways the elephant in the room. They’re highly valued and meaningful, yet require a lot of storage space. For many people, photos are probably the earliest experience of having too much digital content to manage. I first felt this sensation of information…
I recently came across an interesting guide on how to train ChatGPT to write in your own voice and style. It is part of the Substack publication Write With AI, by Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush. I decided to give it a try because if I succeeded, this would solve one of the biggest problems…
In the second part of this blog series I shared how I treated my book as a series of small projects culminating in a final product The same was true for each of the 10 chapters it contained each one was its own project with a deadline and a goal for what that chapter was
Imagine a product manager sitting down with his team on a Monday morning to plan the next week. The main item on the agenda is the decision of whether to create a mobile app for their e-commerce website. The team quickly gets excited about the idea, imagining all the possibilities it could entail. They propose…
It doesn’t have to be a huge project. It doesn’t have to be well-funded or prestigious or public. But it does have to draw something out of you so unexpected that it changes your conception of who you are. The kind of creative project I’m talking about creates an unmistakable inflection point in your life….
The modern era didn’t start with the invention of the car, the television, or the internet. It was the arrival of the humble filing cabinet – a simple metal box with drawers that held pieces of paper on their edge – that changed everything. As Craig Robertson argues in his book The Filing Cabinet: A…
Writing down your open questions is an act of externalization you are taking passing curiosities and interests from your mind and externalizing them into the outside world That is a first step to making those questions active generators of possibility in your life but certainly not the last Once they exist in written form such
Richard Phillips Feynman was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century Born on the outskirts of New York City in 1918 his work in theoretical physics radically reshaped our understanding of the universe we live in at the most fundamental subatomic levels When it was all said and done his biography would
I talked to Robert Breedlove on the What is Money Show about Building a Second Brain, email, PARA, and more. We covered… What is “Inbox Zero” and is it something you want to aspire to How to organize your email with the “executive approach” How I manage my daily calendar and what tool I use…
I joined Rui Dong from The Upgraded Brain for a wide-ranging conversation about… The link between emotions and learning Just-in-time vs. just-in-case Managing your attention The 30-day one-note-a-day experiment Exploring vs. exploiting Fatherhood and my daily routines And so much more Click below to watch it on YouTube:
(While Having Our First Child During a Global Pandemic) Writing and publishing my book Building a Second Brain was by far the longest and hardest project I’ve ever completed. From the first call with the agent (who would eventually represent me) in January 2019 until June 2022 when the book was released to the world,…
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