Can you go 24 hours without learning something new?
I can’t. Ever since I can remember, I’ve had a thirst for learning. I do it every day.
It doesn’t matter if its the few minutes I have between exercises at the gym. The time I take travelling to and from work. Or the moments I find spare at the end of the day. I am constantly on the look out for new information.
But often this information would be consumed and then forgotten. It just isn’t possible to hold all of the knowledge you learn in your brain.
So I resorted to other ideas.
I would email myself the links to the articles, videos and podcasts I consumed. Promising myself that I would come back and write notes down again later.
But all that would happen is my inbox would be full of emails from myself.
I tried again. I switched to Notion. I started writing down notes in documents. I tried to link and tag them together but Notion wasn’t built for what I wanted to do.
What I needed was a second brain. Somewhere were I could dump all of the information I ever learned, read or uncovered.
It had to be easy to use and needed to show me the core insight quickly, allowing me to filter through my knowledge and focus on what mattered most—while still letting me expand on those ideas.
Because what if that article, Youtube video or Podcast was deleted from the internet. What if I needed to go back to understand the context but it wasn’t there.
So I not only needed my notes, but I needed to save the context to what I was thinking at the time, as well as information on the source.
That way no matter when in the future I wanted to go back and review that note I had everything I needed to understand it, my thinking and how that knowledge was acquired.
As I thought about this problem further though I looked to the future.
How does a system like this remain manageable if I collect my thoughts for months, years or even decades.
How would my thinking evolve.
What new things would I learn about a topic.
And when I did learn new things how would I bring all this knowledge together so I could understand the full scale of my knowledge, and perhaps even how my thinking had changed.
I needed to lay the ground work to tag and categorize all this knowledge. I needed to be able to tie a note from a book I read today, with a YouTube video I might watch tomorrow to a lecture I might attend in 6 months time.
That’s why I knew I needed to build my own system.
I needed to build a second brain that tied together all these atomic notes of wisdom.
They needed to be tied to their source.
They needed to be tagged and categorized.
They needed to support my passion for life long learning and ensure I could always go back to the insight I had uncovered.
That’s why I build Kernel. Kernel allows you to build your second brain, one atomic note at a time.
Kernel is built for people like me. Thinkers, doers, life-long learners. People who don’t want to forget. People who don’t want to stop. People who want to piece together this world and all that they discover about it one atomic note at a time.
So welcome to Kernel—your own second brain. Build your lifelong knowledge store one atomic note at a time. Click here to create your free account and start capturing your insights before they slip away.