The myth of canonical docs
The “wasted time” in AI-generation is generating reports and “canonical documents” that you think your future self will need, but will possibly never use. However, I think the core difference is that these documents have a way of compounding that is automatic in a way that second brains never did. Meaning, yes, I generated 8 documents on babies, but the 9th one, can be based on the thinking in the first 8. Shed the original, but maybe 9 is something like a core “README” that shapes all future interactions. That’s the thing. Through writing you are developing a particular lens that is not just sitting there, but being accessed.