Building a Second Brain
Book description
“One of my favorite books of the year. It completely reshaped how I think about information and how and why I take notes.” —Daniel Pink, bestselling author of Drive
A revolutionary approach to enhancing productivity, creating flow, and vastly increasing your ability to capture, remember, and benefit from the unprecedented…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Building a Second Brain as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
There’s a section right at the start of this book where the author tries to quantify the value of things he’s learned over the years, and the result is startling.
Think about this for yourself, just in terms of the code you’ve written - how much do you think that’s worth? Your ability to learn things is your key to thriving in this industry, but how well can you recall those things when you need to?
That’s the point of this whole book: learning to take notes and assemble them into your own personal database. This book led me to…
From Rob's list on self-taught programmers.
It is surprising that most of us are knowledge workers but aren’t taught to manage our knowledge well.
BASB is the first system that is simple enough to follow and yet effective enough to ensure that your knowledge turns into results instead of an unending mess of notes.
From Shawn's list on developers who want no-bullshit career advice.
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