Customizing Your Building a Second Brain System: Making It Work for You

Reading Time: 3 minutes What is the Building A Second Brain System? I’ve been using the Building a Second Brain (BASB) system for about a year now. My system is based on the book Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential, by Tiago Forte. Forte describes his system as …

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How to Succeed by Building on Your Strengths and Defining Your Own Success

Reading Time: 4 minutes Too often, we let others define success for us. It’s “better to thrive at what you’re wired to do than to aspire to something that others tell you that you should want.” Daily Creative: Find Your Inspiration to Spark Creative Energy and Fight Burnout, by Todd Henry. Last week, my wife and I watched the …

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Digital vs. Analog — Is Analog Reading Less Distracting Than Digital Reading?

Reading Time: 8 minutes In a recent blog post to MacSparky Labs members, David Sparks wrote about The Importance of Reading (you won’t be able to access this blog post if you’re not a member of MacSparky Labs). He notes that he is reading more books in recent years, which is what I have experienced as well. In this …

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How I’m Using Craft in My Productivity Workflows

Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve been using Craft for a couple of years now, much more so since last summer. I was initially attracted to Craft because it is a beautiful environment to work in, and enables me to easily create attractive and functional documents. As I’ve worked more with Craft I’ve found myself using it for a number …

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What’s Unique About Building A Second Brain?

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Growing Popularity of Building a Second Brain “Building a Second Brain,” (BASB) is a Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system developed by Tiago Forte. Recently it’s been receiving lots of attention in the productivity and business world. Forte recently published a book by that title and has appeared on numerous tech and business podcasts to …

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