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The idea of second brain is useless

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I think, this idea of having a second brain is utter useless and it doesn't help anyone in any way. It sure feels nice when you're just loading all the information in Notion, Obsidian, or other tools that are suitable for it. But this is just a kind of productivity porn that I was once addicted to – and I had a serious addiction towards it. I am writing about this because I came across this tweet when scrolling today, and it reminded me how I also ditched this second brain thing a few years ago and have only been better since then.

And the reason why it doesn't work is, you spend a lot of time "preparing" your second brain for what information you might need in the future then actually working on something productive. Whenever you see an interesting piece of information, instead of going through it and learning it right away, you start saving it in your second brain for when you might need this in the future. Whenever I found a good article, instead of reading it right away, I would save it and then forget about it. But this is just the part of the problem – the bigger issue is you don't just save things that are useful as of now, but your mind also hallucinating about what information you might need in the future.

But yes, someone who is actually writing all the information in the second brain as they learn, and not using some kind of clipper to save random articles and links from the internet – for them it might actually be useful. Out of 100s of videos I watched back then about the second brain, only a few's second brain were actually helpful for themselves, now that I think about it.

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