I've become so used to extracting maximum value out of my books that to just read them for pleasure feels like a radical, uncomfortable act. Without that pencil in my hand, I'm actively anxious while reading.

But I keep reminding myself to just read . To not try to remember and catalog every little bit of information I come across. Books are not

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• As I said, I believe in trying to trick your brain to do stuff it doesn’t want to do. but I also believe that the natural limits of your attention, memory, and desire can be a really valuable tool. I’m not a rigorous note-taker or archivist; I annotate my books to help me find what I need on a re-read, but beyond that I generally like the idea that

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Yeah, it was my essay on deleting my second brain and moving away from knowledge management systems. It hit a nerve for people because a lot of folks feel like they’re failures just because they don’t have a perfect second brain knowledge management graph. That’s an awful way to feel about yourself—to feel like you’re getting your life wrong... See more