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Personal Knowledge Management Is Bullshit


In both, many people value the output (product) more highly than the process of getting to the output. That’s a mistake. Often, the process has as much (and in the case of PKM, more) value than the final product. Let’s examine how this applies to each discipline.
The point of personal knowledge management isn’t capturing and managing information; it... See more
The point of personal knowledge management isn’t capturing and managing information; it... See more
Reconsidering the Role of AI: Valuing Process Over Output
The field of PKM emerged in the 1990s to help university students handle the huge volume of information they suddenly had access to through Internet-connected libraries. It is the individual counterpart to Knowledge Management, which studies how companies and other organizations make use of their knowledge.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
On PKM influencers:
- Do not trust anyone whose only apparent output is producing PKM-related content. They are trying to sell you the PKM fantasy.
- Of those who do produce something genuinely valuable with the help of PKM, do not believe that simply doing PKM will make you that kind of person. Just because an essayist uses PKM, don't think learning