Second Brain

Welcome to my Second Brain! Here you'll find thoughts, lessons, facts and any other interesting musings that I've come across or thought up over the years. A lot of what I have gathered is originally from the minds of others, while some of it originates from myself. Some notes may contain misinformation, though I try to be rigorous with my additions.

What I have here does not necessarily reflect my thoughts and views. I collect information not based upon whether I agree with it or not, but rather when I determine it to contain some value that can be served in the future.

You can think of this collection of inter-linked notes as my personal wiki.

This Dendron notebook is the sister vault to the tech-focused Digital Garden

Tags

Throughout the Second Brain, I have made use of tags, which give semantic meaning to the pieces of information.

  • ex. - Denotes an example of the preceding piece of information
  • spec: - Specifies that the preceding information has some degree of speculation to it, and may not be 100% factual. Ideally this gets clarified over time as my understanding develops. I try to go back after I have better understood the topic and clear out the notes of spec: tags
  • anal: - Denotes an analogy of the preceding information. When I can, I attempt to link concepts to others that I have previously learned.
  • mn: - Denotes a mnemonic to aid in memorization
  • expl: - Denotes an explanation

Resources

UE (Unexamined) Resources

Often, I come across sources of information that I believe to be high-quality. They may be recommendations or found in some other way. No matter their origin, I may be in a position where I don't have the time to fully examine them (and properly extract notes), or I may not require the information at that moment in time. In cases like these, I will add reference to a section of the note called UE Resources. The idea is that in the future when I am ready to examine them, I have a list of resources that I can start with. This is an alternative approach to compiling browser bookmarks, which I've found can quickly become untenable.

E (Examined) Resources

Once a resource has been thoroughly examined and has been mined for notes, it will be moved from UE Resources to E Resources. This is to indicate that (in my own estimation), there is nothing more to be gained from the resource that is not already in the note.

Resources

This heading is for inexhaustible resources.

  • A prime example would be a quality website that continually posts articles- another example would be a tool, such as software that measures frequencies in a room to help acoustically treat it.

Children
  1. AI
  2. Addiction
  3. Ambition
  4. Anki
  5. Anticipation
  6. Antifragility
  7. Assumptions
  8. Bikes
  9. Business
  10. Character
  11. Charisma
  12. Composure
  13. Computer Science
  14. Consciousness
  15. Conspiracies
  16. Convergence Divergence
  17. Cooking
  18. Creativity
  19. Criticism
  20. Culture
  21. Curiosity
  22. Deceit
  23. Decision Making
  24. Dendron
  25. Diversity
  26. Divorce
  27. Driving
  28. Economics
  29. Equality
  30. Etiquette
  31. Experts
  32. Finance
  33. Fitness
  34. Forgiveness
  35. Freedom
  36. Freewill
  37. Genetics
  38. Grit
  39. Habits
  40. History
  41. Human Nature
  42. Humanity
  43. Humor
  44. Identity
  45. Ideology
  46. Influence
  47. Integrity
  48. Intelligence
  49. Islam
  50. Job Hunting
  51. Knowledge
  52. Law
  53. Learning
  54. Legal System
  55. Linguistics
  56. Logic
  57. Math
  58. Medicine
  59. Meditation
  60. Memory
  61. Mental Models
  62. Motivation
  63. Music
  64. Network Effects
  65. Notetaking
  66. Nutrition
  67. Parenting
  68. Peace
  69. Perception
  70. Planting
  71. Politics
  72. Power
  73. Presenting
  74. Privilege
  75. Productivity
  76. Psychology
  77. Questions
  78. RSS Feed
  79. Racism
  80. Relationships
  81. Religion
  82. Respect
  83. Rights
  84. Romance
  85. Science
  86. Self
  87. Sleep
  88. Social Media
  89. Statistics
  90. Stoicism
  91. Success
  92. Synology
  93. System
  94. Temperature
  95. Thinking
  96. Tribalism
  97. Venting
  98. Vulnerability
  99. Willpower
  100. Wokeism