12/ Take your time in searching for challenging books. A simple heurestic to know whether a book was good: are you thinking differently about the world after reading it? If not, the book was mental junk food.

Did you know that mind maps can improve our memory by 10-15%? Read this interview with @mhollauf, co-founder of @MindMeister, to learn about: • Collaborative mind mapping • Bridging the gap between ≠ thinking modes • ... and much more! nesslabs.com/mindmeister-fe…

The steps of CODE will be automated in this order: 1. Organize (already happening with Roam) 2. Express (starting to happen with GPT-3) 3. Distill (surprisingly difficult to do) 4. Capture (easiest step for humans is the hardest for machines)

Each step of the Second Brain CODE addresses a major challenge of creative work: Capture: overwhelm and overcompensation Organize: complexity and prioritization Distill: discoverability and speed Express: resistance and getting started

There are 4 essential retrieval systems for digital notes: 1. Search: when you know what you're looking for 2. Folders: when you've been saving things in advance 3. Tags: when new categories emerge spontaneously 4. Random chance: when none of the above apply

Notetaking is a revolutionary act of taking back control of your attention from all the future versions of yourself that can’t remember

The most important quality to organize effectively is decisiveness Being decisive about what to keep, where to put it, and what to throw away Everything else comes a distant second

The only purpose of a second brain is to move the bottleneck from your mind to your heart

I truly live my life like the main character in Memento I always assume I’ll forget everything the next day. Must leave notes to give my tomorrow self clues as to what’s going on Highly recommended