Antilibrary - My second-brain

7. I keep a notebook in which I jot down the title and author of every book I read. This is true whether I am reading it for the first time or the fifteenth. Keeping a notebook serves a number of valuable purposes. The first is that it will motivate you; it gives you a sense of what you have accomplished, and at the end of the year it will be satis... See more

The largest library in disorder is not so useful as a smaller but orderly one; in the same way the greatest amount of knowledge, if it has not been worked out in one's own mind, is of less value than a much smaller amount that has been fully considered. For it is only when a man combines what he knows from all sides, and compares one truth with ano

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I will teach you how to create a system of knowledge management, or a “Second Brain.”* Whether you call it a “personal cloud,” “field notes,” or an “external brain” as some of my students have done, it is a digital archive of your most valuable memories, ideas, and knowledge to help you do your job, run your business, and manage your life without h

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Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky on seeking what is significant:

“You can't expect somebody to become a biologist by giving them access to the Harvard University biology library and saying, “Just look through it.” That will give them nothing. The internet is the same, except magnified enormously.

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The person who wins the Nobel Prize in biology... See more