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But if you make your lived experience observable in a structured way that connects to your efforts and projects, your collection of notes becomes something else entirely: not a second (or third) brain, but a practical form of self-knowledge that you can act on.

One practical way to see what belongs in Personal Context — the kind of detail that makes decisions easier — comes from Ruben Hassid. In his article I Am Just a Text File, he argues that what makes people distinctive isn’t just what they like. It’s what they refuse: the things they won’t do, can’t stand, or consider beneath them.

"People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within."

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

And I don’t get much wiser when I look at the recording and notice that a substantial part of it is them running backwards with a hen on their head. If we want crazy outcomes, I guess we have to accept crazy behavior.