Personal Knowledge Management is Bullshit

What percentage of history's greatest and most prolific writers did not use a Zettelkasten? More than 99%, probably. Luhmann is an exception that proves the rule.

The sex appeal of the Knowledge Graph derives from the fantasy of not having to decide what’s most important.

All you have to do is take cute little notes all the time, and the hard work is magically done for you!

That people show off these illegible globs in public only makes sense from a signaling perspective: They are saying, “look at how many nodes I have in my brain, amazing nodes, I have so many nodes that a peon such as yourself can’t even guess what’s going on here!”

Get Your Knowledge Graph Away From Me