There is a Hebrew word: “zakhor.” It means both memory and action. To remember, in this tradition, is not to recall a fact. It is to fulfill an ethical obligation. To make the past present through attention.
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 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. Drawing on something DHH (37Signals) told me a couple of years ago, I’ve started keeping a single note called WHAT where I write down a handful of things I have to remember. The important bits will find their way back.
I don’t want to manage knowledge. I want to live it.
I still love Obsidian. And I’m planning on using it again. From scratch. And with a deeper level of curation and care – not as a second brain, but as a workspace for the one I already have.
And for the first time in years, I’m actually excited by that.
— Read on www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain
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