#STT A lot of my activity in 2022 with regards to information overload was that information overload was an inevitability that had to be dealt with as soon as – as soon as possible after the onset in order to prevent a malaise. And it sounds really dramatic, and it is, but I think that was really what I was going up against last year. I would go after – I was dealing with a malaise after so many hours on the computer, writing my heart out, writing my neurons out, and just trying to funnel more information that I could actually keep in my working memory, in my short-term memory, and my long-term memory. I was constantly overloaded and I did not even stop to think that maybe I could be overloading myself. Because why would you think that you can overload yourself? Why would you think that you can be in excess of knowledge? And yet when I look back, I see a lot of void. I see a lot of blank spots where I feel like I should know this stuff – I used note-taking tools! I put everything in Logseq and Obsidian and DEVONthink and so many other tools. And yet, almost a year later, I’ve practically forgotten all of it. And maybe you could say something like well, why didn’t you use spaced repetition? Will I do believe in space repetition now, but I thought spaced repetition was bruteforcing stuff into your conscious, I don’t believe in that now. I don’t believe spaced repetition is brute force, and in fact I would actually argue that space repetition works hand in hand with driven fluid intelligence, in order to stage the transformations that will occur later in the process of thinking.
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