Self Made Billionaires: How Did They Do It?

I added Obsidian last. That was the right order. Most people building a personal knowledge system do it backwards. They install Obsidian first, configure a vault, explore the plugins, build a folder structure for notes they have not written yet. Then they discover that the system needs content to be useful, and content is harder…

I’ve been through every productivity system you’ve heard of and a few you probably haven’t. I’ve built Kanbans and Zettelkastens and cycled through Evernote, Obsidian, Roam Research, Notion. During my doctoral program I ran a paper planner alongside digital tools, alongside whatever else I was trying that year. Most of it worked. Which is what…