Time and Entropy Waits For No One, So Build Your Own Corpus Proprius, Your Personal Information Network — Christopher Roosen

we can choose to consume information that adds value to our lives and consciously let go of the rest.

It takes a certain lens to see each of these documents and files not as disposable, but as tangible by-products of quality thinking. Much of our work gets repeated over time with slight variations. If you can start your thinking where you left off last time, you’ll be far ahead compared to starting from zero every time.

Nowadays, almost everyone needs a way to manage information. More than half the workforce today can be considered “knowledge workers”—professionals for whom knowledge is their most valuable asset, and who spend a majority of their time managing large amounts of information.