Building a Second Brain

Why it’s on the list: The popularized “second brain” methodology — a system for capturing and organizing notes so that content can be produced modularly by recombining existing ideas, the way David Perell runs a “digital model of his brain.”

Where I saw it: Referenced in Hyper Publishing as the note-storage system that makes modular publishing possible (“Content is like software: expensive to produce, cheap to reproduce”), and in Not So Lazy & Entitled Millennials- David Perell, where Perell describes saving all knowledge so he “never has to remember anything.”

Connections

• Hyper Publishing — modular creation: recombining existing notes to scale production
• Not So Lazy & Entitled Millennials- David Perell — Perell’s Evernote “digital brain”
• David Perell — practitioner of the second-brain workflow