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Continuing with Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMS), we all have them, whether we realize it or not. Some are in our brains, and others are more explicit, created with external tools. We live in an age where large quantities of information bombard us. These include emails, phone calls, text messages, news, magazines, and letters. They come from many different avenues and pass through our consciousness. Because of our brains’ nature, retaining all the information we receive is impossible. We do our best to cull and surrender the information we process to keep what we need. ...

As we narrowed our focus on Gluino, we came across another term for digital second brains. Some people call them Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PMKs). These systems are a way to collect and manage the information in one’s life for reference, research, and retrieval. When discussing Taigo Forte and Second Brains, you discuss organizing and building your PKM. There are a bunch of tools out there for doing this: Notion Obsidian Evernote BearApp To name a couple. Each of these tools has two primary components: ...

Welcome to the year 2025! This is my annual report on the year and a refocus on the upcoming year. This post is about my life and, therefore, is personal and not scientific. The past year (2024) was both excellent and challenging. It’s awesome because I got to start working with one of my favorite people again, and it’s challenging because I’m asked to do a bunch of new things at work, and the world around us has shifted in a way I wouldn’t prefer. ...

I have had several vehicles in Rhode Island since I moved here in 2020. I drive my vehicles everywhere, from Vermont to Florida to California and Washington. I put a lot of miles on my cars. The easiest way to go through tolls is with an electronic transponder, which is an EZ Pass in this state. The EZ Pass system in RI is supposed to be simple and easy to use, but I have found it anything but. The system requires you to manage a complicated account, track the battery life of your transponder, and often try to visit the EZ Pass office, which is only open on select days from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ...

One of my goals this year is to give back more through writing and knowledge. It is laughable that I haven’t published my 2025 blog post yet, but there has been a lot going on, and I’m not quite there yet. A post will come. In the meantime, I’m preparing to take a road trip to California, and part of that is preparing my van to drive across the country. When I got ready for the journey, I found the van had a water leak around the fan area. The work around this was done six years ago, and the fact that it has held up this long is beyond impressive. Still, this work needs to be fixed before I head out. ...