Ali becomes an official alumni mentor for the Building a Second Brain course (2020)

project history · status: last documented in 2020 · last event: milestone (2020-09-27) · owner: Ali

date	event	what	video
2020-08-20	launched	Ali is now an official alumni mentor for the Building a Second Brain course: he will join its live cohorts, held twice a year, and offer mentoring on live Zoom calls.	The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System 00:00:29
2020-08-23	milestone	Ali's whole digital note-taking system is built on the online course Building a Second Brain, in which he is a mentor.	The Perfect Note-Taking App 00:10:52
2020-09-27	milestone	Ali joins a mentor session of the Building a Second Brain online course, in which he is a mentor, and talks with students in breakout rooms about their aims for their second brains.	Collecting My Tesla Model 3 - Day In The Life 00:08:01

What is said about it

7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: Through Building a Second Brain Ali discovered the field of personal knowledge management, which he calls the next level of productivity. — 00:00:00
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The main idea of Building a Second Brain, Ali explains: over time you build a second brain, a digital note-taking system that takes in what resonates with you from what you read, watch and listen to, and you use it to organise your ideas and turn them into creative output. — 00:00:00
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The seventh Building a Second Brain principle, intermediate packets: an essay is made up of many intermediate packets, which Ali called content blocks in his third year of writing essays. — 00:07:59
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The ninth Building a Second Brain principle, make it easier for your future self: Ali sees his second brain, his suite of digital note-taking apps, as work he puts in now to create a resource his future self will find helpful. — 00:11:52
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali: Tiago Forte, who runs the online course Building a Second Brain, uses Evernote as his second brain, Ali says. — 00:02:29
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali says Tiago Forte's online course Building a Second Brain changed his life. — 00:02:29
2020-09-27 · Collecting My Tesla Model 3 - Day In The Life — Ali learned in the Building a Second Brain course, which he is taking part in and mentoring, that a project list is one of the biggest productivity boosts, though few people use one. — 00:05:08