I felt both seen and empowered by his insights. BASB is reassuring and non-judgy Forte offers a way of thinking through problems rather than specific solutions. I’m now starting to benefit from the information firehose instead of drowning.įorte’s BSAB is not really a system, but a theory of digital information management you can apply in any way you like. I bought this book not expecting much (I’ve been burnt before) but Building a Second Brain (BASB) made a huge difference. Well, I might have to revise that statement after reading ‘Building a second brain: a proven method to organise your digital life and unlock your creative potential’ by Tiago Forte.
In that post, I more or less admitted defeat on organsing all the information stuff, concluding: “My best advice is to let go of the need to have a perfect ‘system’ and develop a ‘good enough’ set of solutions that work for you”. What I’m describing is a weird (highly privileged of course), 21st century form of anxiety… But perhaps you can relate? Certainly, a lot of people wrote to me after my most recent post on note taking Information Indigestion: the search for the perfect note taking system. I always feel the need for more information, at the same time as feeling completely overwhelmed by what I already have. I have a bulging hard disk full of stuff that I never look at and a beautiful office full of books, which are mostly unread: I have a terrible information hoarding problem thanks to the fire hose that is social media and a book buying habit. I’ve talked about it a LOT with my friend Jason on our Podcast On The Reg, particularly this one and this one and, more recently, this one. I’ve talked about the issue on the blog here and here. I’m obsessed with the problem of note taking for academic work. You can watch a video about PostAc UK and sign up to get updates on the release here.
We will soon start taking orders from UK universities for the PostAc service. We have seven subscribers in Australia and are looking to expand internationally. Thanks for your patience and understanding.**īefore I start, big news! Long time readers will know that I have been working for years with a team here at ANU on PostAc: a job search engine, powered by machine learning, just for researchers. ** Apologies to email subscribers – I accidentally sent a draft version of this post on Saturday.
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