{"id":377,"date":"2025-07-09T04:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/i-deleted-my-second-brain\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T04:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:22:51","slug":"i-deleted-my-second-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/i-deleted-my-second-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"I Deleted My Second Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is a Hebrew word: \u201czakhor.\u201d 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.<br \/>\nMy new system is, simply, no system at all. I write what I think. I delete what I don\u2019t need. I don\u2019t capture everything. I don\u2019t try to. I read what I feel like. I think in conversation, in movement, in context. I don\u2019t build a second brain. I inhabit the first. Drawing on something DHH (37Signals) told me a couple of years ago, I\u2019ve 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.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t want to manage knowledge. I want to live it.<br \/>\nI still love Obsidian. And I\u2019m planning on using it again. From scratch. And with a deeper level of curation and care &#8211; not as a second brain, but as a workspace for the one I already have.<br \/>\nAnd for the first time in years, I\u2019m actually excited by that.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joanwestenberg.com\/p\/i-deleted-my-second-brain\">www.joanwestenberg.com\/p\/i-deleted-my-second-brain<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a Hebrew word: \u201czakhor.\u201d 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}