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There is some obscenely expensive program for that (I have tried to search for traces of it online). I should do an advanced search again, using key words from

There is some obscenely expensive program for that (I have tried to search for traces of it online). I should do an advanced search again, using key words from the YouTube video below. The course is here: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ Anyways, there is this guy who is really good at hacking life who describes it and took the course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP3dA2GcAh8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP3dA2GcAh8 Anyways, his channel is interesting for sure: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOae5nYA7VqaXzerajD0lg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOae5nYA7VqaXzerajD0lg He was also #1 student in psychology at Cambridge as an undergrad. Anyways, chances are the course is ideas plagiarized from somewhere else. That's why I have searched for the source. I found a good written source for finding key words to do advanced search queries to find the original source: https://www.rylncoaching.com/post/why-i-have-a-second-brain-and-why-you-need-to-build-one-too https://www.rylncoaching.com/post/why-i-have-a-second-brain-... I found high quality illustrated notes on it, too, which will be really helpful for locating wherever the course material is originally from: https://maggieappleton.com/basb https://maggieappleton.com/basb For searching text of books with advanced queries, the best place is here (world's biggest online library): https://www.bookshare.org/search https://www.bookshare.org/search Google Books is best for previewing books.

mongol 5y ago
Did you take the course?
- disabled 5y ago
  Absolutely not. But, I am really good at catching other people's plagiarism, including people who make entire livings off of such grifts. This course has a lot of obvious red flags of that, and I am curious where the original material came from in Creating a Second Brain. This is one example of me finding some severe plagiarism where someone makes an entire living off of it: this Language Master "course" (https://www.languagementoring.com/courses/master/order/ https://www.languagementoring.com/courses/master/order/) which costs 990 EUR is basically this guide, "What do you need to know to learn a foreign language?": https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources/paul-nations-publications/publications/documents/foreign-language_1125.pdf https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources... Basically, the entire basis of her course is that above guide, but she creates video lessons for each section of the above linked guide with worksheets for each section (which you fill out to the videos). The only content that she adds that is substantiative in terms of work is language learning resources for X Y and Z languages, in terms of inputs/outputs.
  - npunt 5y ago
    Tiago Forte has been working on these ideas for many years in the open on his blog (Fortelabs, the one OP posted) and Building a Second Brain is the course he built atop that. From what I have seen of it, its original work and some synthesis of past ideas, just like most things. It's weird to see you do these quick Google searches and speculate its plagiarized without any substance to back your argument or awareness of the work he's been doing for years now.
  - mongol 5y ago
    Funny, because the course seems to be exactly about that. In his video you linked, he quoted Picasso "Good artists copy, great artists steal".
nojito 5y ago
The real productivity experts are the ones who make their revenue optimizing their actual day job and not hocking productivity advice online for views. The best productivity tool is interviewing successful people.
- rubslopes 5y ago
  Unless hocking productivity advice online makes you good money. Check Ali Abdaal channel on Youtube.
dSebastien 5y ago
There's a nice summary of BASB here: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lEwGSa8=/ https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lEwGSa8=/
- disabled 5y ago
  Thanks. The board is extremely helpful in finding stuff. I really appreciate it. I did a search on Bookshare (which I have access to due to having a print-related disability). So far, there is a lot of common words with "Understanding Information Retrieval Systems" by Marcia Bates You can download it here: http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=40869A904ABC59F242AA50E80D46EA06 http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=40869A904ABC59F242AA50E8... But, I don't think that this is what is being copied. But, it could be. I would not be surprised if mosaic plagiarism is going on, where there is copying going on from a different book for each section. We shall see. I will keep searching.
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mongol 5y ago

Did you take the course?

disabled 5y ago
Absolutely not. But, I am really good at catching other people's plagiarism, including people who make entire livings off of such grifts. This course has a lot of obvious red flags of that, and I am curious where the original material came from in Creating a Second Brain. This is one example of me finding some severe plagiarism where someone makes an entire living off of it: this Language Master "course" (https://www.languagementoring.com/courses/master/order/ https://www.languagementoring.com/courses/master/order/) which costs 990 EUR is basically this guide, "What do you need to know to learn a foreign language?": https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources/paul-nations-publications/publications/documents/foreign-language_1125.pdf https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources... Basically, the entire basis of her course is that above guide, but she creates video lessons for each section of the above linked guide with worksheets for each section (which you fill out to the videos). The only content that she adds that is substantiative in terms of work is language learning resources for X Y and Z languages, in terms of inputs/outputs.
- npunt 5y ago
  Tiago Forte has been working on these ideas for many years in the open on his blog (Fortelabs, the one OP posted) and Building a Second Brain is the course he built atop that. From what I have seen of it, its original work and some synthesis of past ideas, just like most things. It's weird to see you do these quick Google searches and speculate its plagiarized without any substance to back your argument or awareness of the work he's been doing for years now.
- mongol 5y ago
  Funny, because the course seems to be exactly about that. In his video you linked, he quoted Picasso "Good artists copy, great artists steal".

nojito 5y ago

The real productivity experts are the ones who make their revenue optimizing their actual day job and not hocking productivity advice online for views. The best productivity tool is interviewing successful people.

rubslopes 5y ago
Unless hocking productivity advice online makes you good money. Check Ali Abdaal channel on Youtube.

dSebastien 5y ago

There's a nice summary of BASB here: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lEwGSa8=/ https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lEwGSa8=/

disabled 5y ago
Thanks. The board is extremely helpful in finding stuff. I really appreciate it. I did a search on Bookshare (which I have access to due to having a print-related disability). So far, there is a lot of common words with "Understanding Information Retrieval Systems" by Marcia Bates You can download it here: http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=40869A904ABC59F242AA50E80D46EA06 http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=40869A904ABC59F242AA50E8... But, I don't think that this is what is being copied. But, it could be. I would not be surprised if mosaic plagiarism is going on, where there is copying going on from a different book for each section. We shall see. I will keep searching.
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