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After almost 20 years as a commercial developer I forget entire projects, entire jobs even. Someone will mention a company name and it takes me a few seconds to

After almost 20 years as a commercial developer I forget entire projects, entire jobs even. Someone will mention a company name and it takes me a few seconds to realize that the reason the name is familiar is because I briefly worked there 15 years ago. Jobs I held for multiple years are fine but any short stints are a blur.

sizzle 8y ago
I've experienced this as well and the phenomenon is more pronounced if the role/company was unremarkable at the time, and it was as if I overwrote the memory with the excitement of the next job, then rinse and repeat with every new job.
- galaxyLogic 8y ago
  I guess something like that is going on in my brain too. The code I come up with often feels exciting because it is a solution to a problem, but then the next several 100 code-solutions overwrite the memory of what once felt important. It is no longer important, so I think it's good my brain let's go of it. But often I lament having not much documented why I wrote some code the way I did
9dev 8y ago
I suspected that would probably happen someday (I'm 24). Do you notice this effect with your private life too? Forgotten relationships, appartments, vacations, etc?
- pandapower2 8y ago
  Yes. Some stick in your memory but others kind of get swept under the carpet. They are all still in your memory somewhere. A photo, something someone says, or even a smell can cause them to come rushing back. "Holy crap, twenty years ago I went to blah and this happened... I'd forgotten about that." Think twice before verbalizing similar moments of sudden recall about old relationships with your current partner. "Man, that made me thing of this chick I was seeing for like a month a few years before I met you..." In terms of their appeal as a sexual partner very few 45 year old long term partners like to feel compared to a 22 year old you had a brief fling with.

sizzle 8y ago

I've experienced this as well and the phenomenon is more pronounced if the role/company was unremarkable at the time, and it was as if I overwrote the memory with the excitement of the next job, then rinse and repeat with every new job.

galaxyLogic 8y ago
I guess something like that is going on in my brain too. The code I come up with often feels exciting because it is a solution to a problem, but then the next several 100 code-solutions overwrite the memory of what once felt important. It is no longer important, so I think it's good my brain let's go of it. But often I lament having not much documented why I wrote some code the way I did

9dev 8y ago

I suspected that would probably happen someday (I'm 24). Do you notice this effect with your private life too? Forgotten relationships, appartments, vacations, etc?

pandapower2 8y ago
Yes. Some stick in your memory but others kind of get swept under the carpet. They are all still in your memory somewhere. A photo, something someone says, or even a smell can cause them to come rushing back. "Holy crap, twenty years ago I went to blah and this happened... I'd forgotten about that." Think twice before verbalizing similar moments of sudden recall about old relationships with your current partner. "Man, that made me thing of this chick I was seeing for like a month a few years before I met you..." In terms of their appeal as a sexual partner very few 45 year old long term partners like to feel compared to a 22 year old you had a brief fling with.