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