“We are surrounded by knowledge, yet starving for wisdom”
Tiago Forte, author Building A Second Brain
Everyone knows that starting a new job is stressful.
When I started at my new job two years ago, people would throw decks, templates, SOPs, client intel, and a whole barrage of information at me. It was like drinking from the proverbial firehose of information, and I tried various tactics to manage it: Bookmarking, notebooks, and even building my own personal resource guide. None of it really seemed to work, and it would stress me out constantly.
Yet despite having access to so much valuable information, I would take hours, sometimes days, to craft any output that required deep thinking, like a new pitch or strategy. I knew that I had everything I needed in my Google Drive or my emails, yet
finding the right info was cumbersome and time-consuming. If you’ve ever tried doing 20 searches for just
that one email or doc...