> I delete what I don’t need. I don’t capture everything. I don’t try to. I read what I feel like. I think in conversation, in movement, in context. I don’t build a second brain. I inhabit the first.
This is a really important insight especially today. There is a ton of pressure to move faster, produce, consume, be the absolute best. Use AI to do things you’d never be able to before. Build a zettlekasten that insights will fall out of. Give up your attention to the next big thing.
For some I’m sure that’s fulfilling and I do not mean to say to stop. But for those whom it brings anxiety, a feeling they can never have or be enough, that meaning is just around the corner this is an important insight.
It reminds me of a favorite quote of mine from Emerson’s Self Reliance: Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.
This is a really important insight especially today. There is a ton of pressure to move faster, produce, consume, be the absolute best. Use AI to do things you’d never be able to before. Build a zettlekasten that insights will fall out of. Give up your attention to the next big thing.
For some I’m sure that’s fulfilling and I do not mean to say to stop. But for those whom it brings anxiety, a feeling they can never have or be enough, that meaning is just around the corner this is an important insight.
It reminds me of a favorite quote of mine from Emerson’s Self Reliance: Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.