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Book: Deep Work
Wed, Mar 11
On building a thinking practice
The point of a second brain isn't storage — it's retrieval under pressure. When you're mid-decision, you need the right fragment, not a folder tree.
Yesterday's note on attention residue keeps resurfacing — Engram linked it three times this week without me asking.
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