parents: Personal Knowledge Management
children: What’s in my second brain, Why I open source my second brain
A second brain is a digital system for managing knowledge. It helps us to capture, organize, and connect your thoughts externally.
Why
- To remember more.
- Our biological memory is unreliable.
- To offloads the burden of remembering.
- This frees up our brain to do what it does best, think and create.
- To generate ideas.
- By externalizing our thoughts, we can see them from a new perspective.
- This helps us to find surprising ideas and links.