I discovered the 12 Problem concept last year via Tiago Forte, author of “Building a Second Brain” and mastermind of the “Second Brain” personal knowledge management system. Forte frames this idea as the key to overcoming information overwhelm in our knowledge-overloaded world.

I was sitting in my therapist’s office in December, describing my inability to get virtually anything done with work or at home for over two years, when she asked me a question.