Your Second Brain Is Making Your First One Lazy (opens in new tab)

Tiago Forte’s Building a Second Brain sold hundreds of thousands of copies and spawned an entire ecosystem of tools, courses, and YouTube channels dedicated to capturing everything you encounter into an external system. The premise is appealing: your brain is for having ideas, not storing them. Offload the storage to Notion, Obsidian, Roam, or whatever tool you prefer, and free your cognitive overhead for creative work. The problem is that this is not quite how memory works, and leaning too h...