The Illusion of Personal Knowledge Management

Exploring the limits of building a second brain

You’ve always been ambitious. You strove to get into a famous college, and graduated straight into a job that impressed your friends. You showed up to your first day of work in a pair of shoes that you bought specifically for the occasion. They turned out to be slightly too small, but you wore them anyway, then promptly discarded them with a grimace at the end of the day.