Links Posts Were a Waste of Time and Made Me Dumber

The Mistake I Made in the Pursuit of KnowledgeI read a lot on the internet—3600 links and counting over six years. I’m around the 95th percentile of curiosity, so finding all these interesting, unique, fun, weird, awesome links is an easy, free, and fun way to satisfy that urge.Documenting them also feels great. Like I’m making progress on something. Like I’m building out and growing my second brain. Like I’m becoming smarter and more interesting and more well-read. And so I document everything to satisfy that urge.I started out including both descriptions/thoughts and tags on each link. The former was to help me prove my comprehension and think about the piece, the latter so I could quickly reference a topic. It was around 2021 and 2022 that my descriptions and thoughts began to wane, becoming more succinct and factual than explanatory and opinionated. And in late 2022 I stopped the descriptions altogether, telling myself that they weren’t adding that much value and sheer volume was…