A story about deleting the second brain
I wrote this post titled "the idea of second brain is useless" only a few months ago and then came across this post from Joan Westenberg talking about deleting her second brain. The second brain was built using Obsidian, and it didn't work for her in the way she expected, in fact, it became burden.
But over time, my second brain became a mausoleum. A dusty collection of old selves, old interests, old compulsions, piled on top of each other like geological strata. Instead of accelerating my thinking, it began to replace it. Instead of aiding memory, it froze my curiosity into static categories.
The article is really well-written, and I loved reading it. I hope, I will be able to articulate my thoughts and write in this way, some day.
My new system is, simply, no system at all. I write what I think. I delete what I don’t need. I don’t capture everything. [...]
I don’t want to manage knowledge. I want to live it.
Basically, this post resonates with me a lot because I also stopped capturing "everything" in Obsidian only a while ago.
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