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"I deleted my second brain" by Joan Westenberg is very worth reading. I am on a similar path right now, removing a lot of digital cruft and structures I had applied to my life in the belief that I could gain more control.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted

I Deleted My Second Brain
Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

“I Deleted My Second Brain
Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save”
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain

Tailoring deep learning for real-time brain-computer interfaces: From offline models to calibration-free online decoding
Martin Wimpff, Jan Zerfowski, Bin Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06779

Tailoring deep learning for real-time brain-computer interfaces: From offline models to calibration-free online decoding
Despite the growing success of deep learning (DL) in offline brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), its adoption in real-time applications remains limited due to three primary challenges. First, most DL solutions are designed for offline decoding, making the transition to online decoding unclear. Second, the use of sliding windows in online decoding substantially increases computational complexity. Third, DL models typically require large amounts of training data, which are often scarce in BCI appli…

„My new system is, simply, no system at all. I write what I think. I delete what I don’t need. I don’t capture everything. I don’t try to. I read what I feel like. I think in conversation, in movement, in context. I don’t build a second brain. I inhabit the first.”
The PKM-movement never took off for me since it feels like building and bulding and building… Just one more note! It’s like productivity snake-oil.

I Deleted My Second Brain
Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

alright im going through my old files again and rediscovered a shitty unfinished sci-fi epic poem thing i was writing sometime when i was 14/15/idfk. all i remember about it is that it was gonna keep doing this countdown and changing structure accordingly for a really long time, i was thinking of depicting the character finding love in an ethereal sorta way for the ending, and it was gonna incorporate a enochian number square for some reason.

Network Models of Neurodegeneration: Bridging Neuronal Dynamics and Disease Progression
Christoffer G. Alexandersen, Georgia S. Brennan, Julia K. Brynildsen, Michael X. Henderson, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Dani S. Bassett
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05151

Network Models of Neurodegeneration: Bridging Neuronal Dynamics and Disease Progression
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the accumulation of misfolded proteins and widespread disruptions in brain function. Computational modeling has advanced our understanding of these processes, but efforts have traditionally focused on either neuronal dynamics or the underlying biological mechanisms of disease. One class of models uses neural mass and whole-brain frameworks to simulate changes in oscillations, connectivity, and network stability. A second class focuses on biologica…

“But the insight was never lived. It was stored”
“I stopped wondering and started processing”
“Merlin Donald … argues that human intelligence emerged not from static memory storage but from external symbolic representation: tools like language, gesture, and writing that allowed us to rehearse, share, and restructure thought. Culture became a collective memory system - not to archive knowledge, but to keep it alive, replayed, and reworked”

Chinese state media: researchers successfully implanted a brain-computer interface in a tetraplegia patient in March, the second country after the US to do so (Karoline Kan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Vivani subsidiary Cortigent (which took over the visual prosthesis technology of Second Sight Medical Products) claims that "Argus II has been discontinued due to the small population of patients with RP" https://www.cortigent.com/argus-ii after 350 blind people had received the Argus II retinal …

Disentangling Boltzmann brains, the time-asymmetry of memory, the H theorem, and the second law
David Wolpert, Carlo Rovelli, Jordan Scharnhorst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10959

Disentangling Boltzmann brains, the time-asymmetry of memory, the H theorem, and the second law
Are you, with your perceptions, memories and observational data, a Boltzmann brain, i.e., a statistical fluctuation out of the thermal equilibrium of the universe? Arguments are given in the literature for and against taking this hypothesis seriously. Complicating these analyses have been the many subtle - and very often implicit - entanglements between related arguments that have been given for the past hypothesis, the second law, and even Bayesian inference of the reliability of experimental …

Looking at the Markdown note-taking/Zettelkasten/"second brain" software space and being really put off by the almost religious fervor around it all.
I have a variety of "things I need infrequently want to note down in a place I can reliably retrieve them later" and "ongoing personal projects that get picked up and put down as bandwidth allows, for which I'd like to serialize my work".
I don't want to save every stray thought. Most of my tho…