(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