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I noticed I was losing a lot of valuable knowledge.

Advancing through my career and projects, I had thousands of notes in research notebooks, journals, and word documents detailing processes, terminology, and valuable experiences. But with every new challenge, I lost time and motivation by reinventing wheels I had already created, like:

• re-writing SOPs from scratch
• forgetting concepts from valuable books
• misplacing sources and quotes for articles

What’s a second brain?

“…an external, centralized, digital repository for the things you learn and the resources from which they come…(leaving) our biological brain to imagine, create, and simply be present.”

• Tiago Forte

In Spring 2023, I read [[../../../Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte|Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte]], then watched Nick Milo’s video on Linking Your Thinking. Since then, I’ve been filling my Second Brain with notes and creating insights that I share with others. In November 2024, I started publishing a public version of my second brain using Quartz and Enveloppe.

Some of these notes are fleshed out and well developed, others short works-in-progress. Don’t be afraid to poke around!

Don’t know where to start? Look through my [[./book-notes-home|Book Notes]].