# personal knowledge management (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover personal knowledge management. Page: Feed: --- ## [Cognitive Debt: The Real Cost of Offloading to AI](https://www.ctnet.co.uk/cognitive-debt-ai-offloading/) _2026-08-17 · Sean Barnes · The Computer & Technology Network_ I stopped doing long division the day I got a calculator. Technical debt has a cognitive twin, and generative AI makes it far easier to run up. What should we still do ourselves? The post Cognitive Debt: The Real Cost of Offloading to AI appeared first on The Computer & Technology Network . ## [Quarterly Vault Review: What Changed in My Zettelkasten](https://www.ctnet.co.uk/quarterly-vault-review-q3/) _2026-08-10 · Sean Barnes · The Computer & Technology Network_ Three months on from my first vault analysis, I ran the numbers again. The backlog shrank for the first time, the Readwise pile grew, and Claude found gaps I had not noticed. Here is what changed. The post Quarterly Vault Review: What Changed in My Zettelkasten appeared first on The Computer & Technology Network . ## [Claude Obsidian Workflow: My PKM Update (Part 3)](https://www.ctnet.co.uk/claude-obsidian-workflow-pkm-pt3/) _2026-08-03 · Sean Barnes · The Computer & Technology Network_ Part three of my Claude + Obsidian series: trying the new Fable model for a vault review, letting Buffer draft my social posts, and finally taming my notes backlog with an intent property. The post Claude Obsidian Workflow: My PKM Update (Part 3) appeared first on The Computer & Technology Network . ## [Cognitive Mirror Syndrome: Should We Be Concerned?](https://www.ctnet.co.uk/cognitive-mirror-syndrome/) _2026-07-27 · Sean Barnes · The Computer & Technology Network_ A research paper on Cognitive Mirror Syndrome got me questioning whether AI mirrors us as individuals or as a species, and what that means for how we use it. The post Cognitive Mirror Syndrome: Should We Be Concerned? appeared first on The Computer & Technology Network . ## [How to Protect Your Cognitive Abilities in the AI Age](https://www.ctnet.co.uk/protect-cognitive-abilities-ai-age/) _2026-07-20 · Sean Barnes · The Computer & Technology Network_ The final post in my Exponential Age series: what you can actually control when it comes to protecting your cognitive abilities as AI accelerates around you. The post How to Protect Your Cognitive Abilities in the AI Age appeared first on The Computer & Technology Network . ## [AI and Information Overload: Why Our Minds Can’t Keep Up](https://www.ctnet.co.uk/ai-information-overload/) _2026-07-13 · Sean Barnes · The Computer & Technology Network_ I'm 55, I got online in 1996, and my working memory still hasn't upgraded since. A personal look at what three decades of internet, and now AI, have done to how I think. The post AI and Information Overload: Why Our Minds Can’t Keep Up appeared first on The Computer & Technology Network . ## [Economics of the Exponential Age: Who Wins, Who Loses](https://www.ctnet.co.uk/economics-exponential-age/) _2026-07-06 · Sean Barnes · The Computer & Technology Network_ Wages are stagnating while productivity soars and a handful of tech giants dominate. Here is a look at who really wins (and loses) in the exponential age. The post Economics of the Exponential Age: Who Wins, Who Loses appeared first on The Computer & Technology Network . ## [Technology Outpacing Society: Who Gets Left Behind](https://www.ctnet.co.uk/technology-outpacing-society/) _2026-06-29 · Sean Barnes · The Computer & Technology Network_ From a single trillion-dollar fortune to outdated legislation, the gap between technology and society is real - and growing. Part 2 of my series on why technology is outpacing society. The post Technology Outpacing Society: Who Gets Left Behind appeared first on The Computer & Technology Network . ## [What Is the Exponential Age? Technology Explained](https://www.ctnet.co.uk/what-is-the-exponential-age/) _2026-06-22 · Sean Barnes · The Computer & Technology Network_ This is the first post in our new series exploring why technology is outpacing society. We start with the basics: what is exponential technology and what's driving it? The post What Is the Exponential Age? Technology Explained appeared first on The Computer & Technology Network . ## [What Is Knowledge? Types, Assets, and the AI Problem](https://www.ctnet.co.uk/what-is-knowledge/) _2026-06-15 · Sean Barnes · The Computer & Technology Network_ I used to think I knew what knowledge was. Exploring it through my Zettelkasten changed that - and raised bigger questions about AI and what we risk losing. The post What Is Knowledge? Types, Assets, and the AI Problem appeared first on The Computer & Technology Network . ## [Stop CI/CD & Supply-Chain Attacks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wy1F1UMIGHPL) _2026-06-15 · **Sponsored**_ Per-PR: 17 CI/CD checks and package malware scans with inline Check Run findings. ## [AI Persuasion](https://mindos.in/posts/17-ai-persuasion/) _2025-11-18 · MindOS_ The main problem I’m currently working on is this: “How do I change my own beliefs?” Especially if I don’t think that the belief is true. If I think it’s true, I already believe it. But if I don’t think that belief is true, how can I still ‘believe’ it? How do I make it true in my own mind? I have a few ideas for this - but nothing that works reliably yet. At this point, I want to turn... ## [How I Accidentally Built a Runaway AI](https://nsavage.substack.com/p/how-i-accidentally-built-a-runaway) _2025-09-16 · Nick Savage · Nick Savage_ A half‑finished coding agent taught me three lessons: tokens are expensive, feedback loops matter, and guardrails aren’t optional ## [What I Learned Rebuilding Search Three Times](https://nsavage.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-rebuilding-search) _2025-09-04 · Nick Savage_ The evolution of Zettelgarden’s search: frontend hacks, brittle SQL, and finally a dedicated engine. ## [Facts, Arguments, Theses: Building AI Knowledge Retrieval on Meaning, Not Slices](https://nsavage.substack.com/p/facts-arguments-theses-building-ai) _2025-08-22 · Nick Savage · Nick Savage_ Progress notes from Zettelgarden: experimenting with LLM pipelines that embed semantic units - theses, arguments, and facts - instead of raw text chunks ## [When AI Promises Speed but Delivers Debugging Hell](https://nsavage.substack.com/p/when-ai-promises-speed-but-delivers) _2025-01-26 · Nick Savage · Nick Savage_ Lessons learned from building Codescribble with a little help (and a lot of frustration) from an AI ## [The Scenic Route to Software: Code Generation for Non-Traditional Developers](https://nsavage.substack.com/p/the-scenic-route-to-software-code) _2025-01-08 · Nick Savage · Nick Savage_ Observations from a self-taught developer building in public ## [Beyond RAG: Building a Knowledge Management System That Enhances Rather Than Replaces Thought](https://nsavage.substack.com/p/beyond-rag-building-a-knowledge-management) _2025-01-02 · Nick Savage · Nick Savage_ Preserving and augmenting human insight in an age of automated knowledge with Zettelgarden ## [From Vector Search to Entity Processing: Evolving Zettelgarden's Connection Engine](https://nsavage.substack.com/p/from-vector-search-to-entity-processing) _2024-12-02 · Nick Savage · Nick Savage_ A deep dive into how Zettelgarden evolved from basic vector search to a sophisticated entity processing system, exploring the challenges and opportunities in augmenting human knowledge connections ## [Zettelgarden: Building Your Intelligent External Memory](https://nsavage.substack.com/p/zettelgarden-building-your-intelligent) _2024-11-26 · Nick Savage · Nick Savage_ Adding conversational AI to your personal knowledge management system ## [Retrieval Augmented Generation in Practice: Building Search for Connected Notes](https://nsavage.substack.com/p/retrieval-augmented-generation-in) _2024-11-21 · Nick Savage · Nick Savage_ Chunking, reranking, and vector search implementation with LLMs in Zettelgarden ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6rNbBUSUa8dC) _2024-11-21 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Belief System Literature Review](https://mindos.in/posts/16-belief-systems/) _2024-10-11 · MindOS_ After taking a long break from working on belief systems(and writing a book in the meantime), I think it’s time to get back to belief system. The problem that got me stuck was how to define the term ‘Belief Systems’. The concept is not new(the oldest usage I could find goes all the way back to Plato and his... ## [Zettelgarden and Retrieval-Augmented Generation](https://nsavage.substack.com/p/zettelgarden-and-retrieval-augmented) _2024-10-04 · Nick Savage · Nick Savage_ Building retrieval-augmented generation into a personal information management system