Once you build a second brain, a new job begins: raising it.
Straighten the folders. Standardize the tags. Merge duplicate notes. Connect the links. Review old information.
A second brain needs care.
A houseplant only asks for water.
A second brain occasionally asks for your classification policy.
Water is not enough.
The more impressive I try to make the second brain, the more decisions appear before I can record a single thing.
And those decisions must be made by my unreliable first brain.
Where does this go?
What should I call it?
Which tags should it have?
Have I written the same thing before?
Yes.
Almost certainly.
But I do not know where.
I search.
Nothing.
I write it again.
Now there are two.
The first brain goes to work organizing the second brain.
I built the second one to lighten my mental load, but now the first one is managing it.
Now that I have two brains, I need a brain to supervise them.
Brain Three has arrived.
Brain Three watches over Brains One and Two.
Once a week, it reviews them both.
Once a month, it reviews the classification policy.
Once a year, it moves data out of the apps I no longer use.
Busy.
I meant to rest my mind, but the brain meetings have multiplied.
Brain One. Brain Two. Brain Three.
Today’s agenda: brain operations.
The meeting has no scheduled end time.
