No technique or tool for saving links works because we try to save too many links
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We just move links from one black hole to another
Bookmarks, notebooks, tabs, link share channels on discords and slacks…
Wide social sharing is the only thing that actually works… you can hope it will be immediately salient enough to someone that they actually read it
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If you tweet a link there’s a slight chance someone will read it and be influenced enough by it to form a live me,or of it in your social graph
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I forget where I first read the acronym WORN for bookmarking type products — write once, read never
It’s true… and I say this having worked 4 years on a serious bookmarking product — seriously extended individual memory is a false dream
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* live memory 2 tweets up
None of us** can remember until all of us can remember
** us = minimum viable local social graph neighbirhood, about 1000 imo
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My theory:
Of the links that catch your eye, you should…
Read 1% immediately
Put 9% into a notebook or something and hope you’ll run into it again at a useful time when reviewing
90%… just RT or share somewhere with enough people
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I have hopes for an AI powered tool though
“Remember this” browser extension button that puts it in a data set. Then later when relevant, it is surfaced again by GPT-5
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This is why I can’t embrace a links-first approach to knowledge mgmt. There’s nothing more fragile and prone to failure than links. They are at best temporary doorways
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damn, that’s too true. this allows me to not feel guilt when I not read all of “saved” articles!
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Information is a supernormal stimulus, just like sugar.
It was once environmentally sparse, so we have no hard limit on our desire to acquire / retain it.
But informational diabetes is all too real.
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