We bookmark articles to read later, but rarely find the time to revisit them again. We spend hours every day interacting with social media updates that will be forgotten in minutes. “Paradoxically, despite all the technological inventions of the Information Age, we are in some ways further from their original vision than ever. “Much of the time we are “information hoarders,” stockpiling endless amounts of well-intentioned content that only ends up increasing our anxiety.” And his book shifted my perspective in a couple of important ways.įirst off, I came across a ton of resonant quotes early on. Well, it turns out Tiago has done a lot of work on this subject. Do I really need to be taught how to take notes? How to crawl the vastness of the web for valuable nuggets? I don’t think so! “More is not better when it comes to thinking and creating,” Tiago Forte writes in Building A Second Brain, and he’s right. The cost of searching for it is too great. But it’s near impossible to find and entangled with everything else. New information increasingly ends up in folders that resemble my box of old cables. But the fight against the weeds has been lost. Half a year later, you can still see the outlines, the ambition, the planning. New folders and apps sit there like a newly arranged garden with a neatly trimmed lawn and carefully planned patches. Is it in my current “Seth Klarman” folder? Or in the archive? Or in the archive within the archive? Maybe in one of the folders whose names seemed like good ideas at the time: “Content platform,” “Wall Street,” even “library.”Įvery couple of years it gets a refresh. I know it’s there, preserved in some layer, a remnant of a long-forgotten era. Trying to track down an old file is like visiting an archeological dig site. I primarily use Evernote, desktop folders, and a fleet of Google spreadsheets. My personal “knowledge management system” is a treacherous contraption of folders and apps that doesn’t deserve to be called a system. Half an hour and ten bookmarks later I manage to extract myself from the infinite scroll. It’s pure fear of missing out, information FOMO, and a futile effort to ease my anxiety about not keeping up with everything that could be interesting and valuable. Opening Twitter can feel like stepping into a tar pit. An endless rabbit hole, a never-ending story. The internet, and Twitter specifically, are the best and worst things to happen to curious people, ever.
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