From domicide to the symbolic executive, tiny gods and dreaming of flip phones, the infinite workday, managing knowledge → living knowledge, choosing (meaningful) struggle, and native land maps
Joan Westernberg's piece here is fascinating. I went through a similar process a few years ago with my own 'second brain' (also based on a vast interlinked pile of Markdown notes with an Obsidian front-end)... although I didn't frame it this way consciously. It just started to feel like a very heavy system that was turning me into something I didn't want to be. And, yes, it ossified my thinking.
I moved back to the analogue tools I never stopped using, and stopped feeling bad about the things I 'fail' to capture. There's grace in forgetting.
Pls more (!) poems curated by you, Thomas🙏
:) okay!
Joan Westernberg's piece here is fascinating. I went through a similar process a few years ago with my own 'second brain' (also based on a vast interlinked pile of Markdown notes with an Obsidian front-end)... although I didn't frame it this way consciously. It just started to feel like a very heavy system that was turning me into something I didn't want to be. And, yes, it ossified my thinking.
I moved back to the analogue tools I never stopped using, and stopped feeling bad about the things I 'fail' to capture. There's grace in forgetting.