Insights from Rob Dodson: "Ultimately the value of a second brain is not to take notes but to help you think better.

Doing so means having a criteria for what a valuable note should look like and a process for how those notes evolve into something useful.

Otherwise the note taking is just a form of productivity theater.

This is made worse by agents because they give you a dopamine hit when they write a note for you, but it's a cheap high—if you're not engaging with the content and thinking deeply about it, then that note won't offer you much value in the future.

This goes back to the idea that agents can do cognitive labor, but the humans still have to do the thinking.

Vibewriting requires much more participation from the human than vibecoding.

With vibecoding you can describe the shape of the experience you want and, so long as it functions and the underlying code seems reasonable, you don't have to think about it too deeply.

But with writing/thinking you can't short circuit the process.

Agents can help but you can't say 'Claude, build me novel insights.'"