Was it one of you? Incepting or haunting or possessing me? 🤨
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The interesting thing is it’s a kind of memory break. Since writing is like memory for me. It’s like I successfully warehoused pre-2018 memories and copied over present state to a blank bootable disk. Like upload but for de-selfed archival. Regeneration Doctor Who style.
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It’s not just figurative. My recall ability of old material has plummeted. I used to have a live index of sorts cached, and pull up relevant links easily. Now I can’t.
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Part of it is the effect of newslettering, which induces much weaker indexing. Recall of newsletter content is like 100x weaker. It’s a memory hole. But even blog content.
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If I could figure out how I did it, I could probably sell the recipe for money 🤑
A big part was doing blogchains and deprecating memorable headlines into anti-meme ones. Currently most blog posts just have a number. I think doing this consistently for 2 years broke memory.
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This sounds bad, but deliberately achieving a full cache-invalidation on your brain without incurring brain damage seems like a good trick to master. Like clearing cookies and browser history.
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I’m not sure why I did it. Old me probably had a good reason. But because it worked I have no clue. Clear the slate… for what? 🧐
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That was a good movie. Didn’t realize it was a PKD story.
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I keep forgetting I live in Hollywood but Hollywood itself moved to BC 🤣

