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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 6
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      My first brain either has a hoarding problem or runs a big data strategy (cheaper to store stuff than to figure out what it means). Most things I take note of and file away unconsciously are never used, but a chunk turns out to be salient to something 1-10 years later.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 6
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      This is radically cheaper than taking notes which requires some immediate sensemaking. But it’s not efficient predictive processing. I don’t primarily store violations of expectations to improve predictability. It’s more random.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 6
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Abhinav Kejriwal

      Second brain is for processing and digesting and turning into output.https://twitter.com/abhinavkej/status/1313577043112546305 …

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      Abhinav Kejriwal @abhinavkej
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      What do you feel is the use of your second brain then, given this?
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 6
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          Often recall-use events are their own reward. Long-arc callbacks are fun for no reason other than being long. I do this in twitter replies whenever I can. Serves no real purpose, but fun to throw people off balance by pointing to an interaction weeks or months ago. Memory stunt.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 6
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          The only practical use I know of is to impress interviewers. Most people have like 1-minute memory in live conversations. 20+ minutes callbacks look like genius. Iirc sheep on,y have ~20min short-term memory.

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 6
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          With a few cue notes, my near-total conversational recall memory lasts about a week (so the most I can delay writing up proper meeting notes is about 4-5 days adher which there is sharp degradation).

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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 6
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          For long-term stuff, what sticks shapes and constrains what I think, not the other way around. I kinda live in the light-cone of my unconscious memory. I don’t really journal or practice any other comprehensive capture habits, which is why the Roam daily note model is not for me.

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        1. radical al-Jabraist‏ @mathpunk Oct 6
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          I have a brain that will read a tweet and remember the screen name of someone I met IRL once 11 years ago who definitely knows papers on the subject. But if I try and capture that knowledge in notes I'll never get to writing on-topic notes for something that I plan to ship.

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