Metadata
- Author: The Building a Second Brain Podcast
- Full Title: Myth 5: A Second Brain Requires Me to Have Technical Skills
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- URL: https://www.airr.io/episode/607dcd8bf887b0bfb0c750d1
Highlights
Speaker 0: I think there’s certain kinds of professions that are early to this. It’s people who solve open ended problems, people like writers, like graphic designers, like software engineers, right, who have a an input of different kinds of knowledge over here and then an output of different knowledge over here. But how it gets from the input to the output is a little unclear um but I do think that that (Time 0:03:58)
Speaker 0: visited it before you click there. You have some memory of where on the page that answer is you go through all those steps so quickly that it’s as if you know it, even though if I forced you to come up with it without google, you wouldn’t be able to write. So I think google in a funny way has actually introduced us to this idea of like cognitive extension um more than we realize. But there’s a couple things that we can’t do. Okay, so a couple things first, Google doesn’t have your version of that knowledge, your interpretation, your take because when you come across a google result you can’t edit it. That’s control that’s owned, that’s literally owned and monetized by someone else or some other company. So if you have any interpretation, even if even if that’s just you want to put more emphasis on a idea instead of the idea, you can’t change it. There’s nothing no highlighting, no reorganizing, no editing, no annotating none of that you can do on that web page. But there’s something else too, which is there’s this idea in the world of finance of Alpha, right? This idea that there’s certain knowledge that is not universally known, that you can’t just do a google search. You can’t just look it up either because it’s not well distributed, it’s not widely known, it’s not on the internet, it’s only in the minds of certain people, for example, and that’s the most valuable knowledge. It’s not on the internet, it’s only in the minds of certain people, for example, and that’s the most valuable knowledge, right? That rare or secret or esoteric knowledge is the best knowledge, precisely because not everyone has it, right? (Time 0:06:31)(Time 0:06:20)(Time 0:05:40)
- The importance of storing information in the models that align with how your brain works and how you store things.