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> Building a second brain is not Doing The Thing. I hate the concept of a “second brain” but this isn’t necessarily true. Those guides you make at work seeming
by tolerance 9mo ago
> Building a second brain is not Doing The Thing.
I hate the concept of a “second brain” but this isn’t necessarily true.
Those guides you make at work seemingly precede the action of someone else, right? And even if the notes you write for yourself aren’t needed afterwards, don’t they contribute to “doing the thing”?
- item007 9mo agoI think “second brain isn’t doing” is a good antidote to procrastination-by-organization, but it’s not universally true. Guides/runbooks are clearly “doing” because they enable action by others. Even personal notes can be “doing” if they change decisions, reduce re-entry cost, or prevent repeating mistakes. The failure mode is when system-building becomes a substitute for output, not a support for it.
- nicbou 9mo agoThese notes are explicitly part of the process, but they're just markdown files in a folder.
- tolerance 9mo agoThat’s quite like how I see my own system.