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It's absolutely true that to be most useful, knowledge needs to be absorbed and integrated directly into the mind. But there's a large constellation of useful i

It's absolutely true that to be most useful, knowledge needs to be absorbed and integrated directly into the mind. But there's a large constellation of useful information and data out there too, and you can't and shouldn't memorize all of it. I collect a lot of links to articles that I've read using pinboard.in. However, I fairly frequently end up searching through those bookmarks to find the article that I remembered reading. I suppose once or a few times per month. It's especially useful for bookmarking specific scientific studies, or papers presenting engineering techniques, etc., where it's useful to remember "I recall reading about that" and be able to get back to the original.

fao_ 9y ago
> there's a large constellation of useful information and data out there too, and you can't and shouldn't memorize all of it. Not only that, but also > Just knowing about a thing is less than superficial since knowing about is merely to be certain of its existence, nothing more. Sometimes just having a sketchy map of the territory is infinitely more useful to learning than knowing nothing at all. Of course we should strive for more than that, but when push comes to shove, a person with a rough map will waste less time in learning what they must, than someone who has no map at all.