# Dr Jason Frand on PKM- Youtube Video Conversation with [[Tiago Forte]]. [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrwsbz5T-fM) ## Origins - Mathematics background. - Coined in 1999 by Dr. Jason Frand and Carol Hixon in the paper ‘[Personal Knowledge Management: Who, What, Why, When, Where, How?](x-devonthink-item://0FFB56F6-0E10-4BF5-BBB0-C68486F231EA)’.  - Practical problems, not just academic. - Need to keep track of files. Tried to work with Librarians. - Cataloguing and indexing. Could do degrees in it. - Combination of search and hierarchical approaches. Why not both? a - Built around role functions. What do I want to accomplish. - Search bar - search within topics - Just In Time Organisation. - Don't want to organise things before it is absolutely necessary? Over burdens things. - People have different Tacit ('difficult to state or extract') vs explicit knowledge. - Own musings and thoughts (diary) - Other people's thoughts - Some people use productivity and Second Brains to procrastinate. Was it time well spent? - What is literacy? Reading and writing? Writing via dictating. ## See also - [[Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)|PKM]] - [[Second Brain]]