(Work in progress) Outsourcing your mental resources - Pitch
References
Building a second brain
Getting Things Done
Commonplacing
The ultimate commonplacing system
Quotes
Other people in history
Why?
Remember (Storing knowledge)
Information consumption
Very little time is spent saving, preserving and cultivating knowledge
Humans today consume a large amount of information
Makes knowledge accessible
Napoleon Bonaparte could access information in his mind by visualizing opening a drawer and pulling that information out. But this requires a lot of practice from a young age, and is not possible for most people
Connect (Using your brains pattern recognition)
Practices the ability of revealing patterns and associations between chunks of information
Create (Transferable & Replicable information)
Allows you to create content once, and use it multiple times
Allows you to share your content easily
Mind like water
Allows you to have a lot of things to do, while being able to focus on what's important right now
Definition
A digital space containing systems
Background
Started Commonplacing more than 5 years ago
Systems
Tasks
Knowledge
Goals
Reflection
Most people uses multiple different systems today. But not in one single place
Making connections between different areas of your life becomes so much easier when all the different systems that makes up your life is gathered in one space
Personal Use cases
Was able to combine University, Work & Passion
Combining things like this allows you to create something once, and use it for multiple purposes
Was able to combine University Essay, E-book & Presentation that could be reused for many clients
Which type of systems, and how many is different for everyone.
Most benefits are the same, but differs in "intensity"
Work The System - Sam Carpenter
Information Systems Development - Methods in Action
Benefits
Increase your ability to learn
Remember things you've learned for longer periods of time
Make connections between things that you've learned
Access knowledge instantly
Details stored in your digital space can be accessed much more easily than details stored in your mind (unless you're rain-man)
Switch between horizons of focus easily
Zoom in or out on a specific part of a system. Just get exposed to the details of a specific system, or view the correlation between different systems
Improve your pattern recognition
Using a digital space allows you to practice pattern recognition daily, and therefore strengten your neural networks
Allows you to be present
"Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them."
An external, centralized, digital repository for the things you learn and the resources from which they come.
"By offloading our thinking onto a “second brain,” we free our biological brain to imagine, create, and simply be present. We can move through life confident that we will remember everything that matters, instead of floundering through our days struggling to keep track of every detail."
Reduce stress and “information overload"
By expertly curating and managing your personal information stream
Cultivation of a collection of valuable knowledge
Brains vs. Computers
The only two things in this world that can perform cognitive tasks
Brains
Computers
Good at remembering
Good at so many other things. Bad at remembering!
Creativity
Dependent on organization
Organizing your house is no different from organizing your digital environment
Quotes
Automation
Study shows that the jobs that are the least susceptible to computerisation is those that contains "The ability to convey not just information but a particular interpretation of information"
Situational Awareness