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matsemannyesterday at 6:40 PM2 repliesview on HN

Learning has always been to write things down. Just reading it seldom sticks.


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RealityVoidyesterday at 7:36 PM

Absolutely not. Learning has been to experiment with the things until you form a effective mental model of the thing. Writing things does ab-so-luetely nothing except make you feel good in the moment. Just like listening to a lecture without engaging with the subject matter deeper.

Writing things down is important for organisational persistence of information but that is something else.

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0wisyesterday at 7:01 PM

Not sure humanity learned nothing before the last 8000 years. It was just very slow. Maybe we will need new ways to learn