Tools and systems designed to capture all knowledge at scale create a false sense of mastery and coherence while delivering abstracted confusion and cognitive overload.

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PKM systems promise coherence, but they often deliver a kind of abstracted confusion. The more I wrote into my vault, the less I felt.

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Why I Deleted My Second Brain: A Journey Back to Real ThinkingJA Westenberg
Created: 8/13/2026, 4:50:28 AM

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