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If you have to look something up or solve something and it takes more than 2 minutes then write the solution down in your notes. Lots of times you'll need that
by dmortin 6y ago
If you have to look something up or solve something and it takes more than 2 minutes then write the solution down in your notes. Lots of times you'll need that again and you won't have to search for it again.
- XCSme 6y agoI am a bit conflicted about the note-taking part. If you keep writing notes, at some point you will have to search through all of them to find what you need. So you not only spend the time to write the note, you still have search for the solution and there's the risk of the solution becoming outdated (eg. maybe the problem now has a better solution due to new versions of software)
- Uhhrrr 6y agoThat's where org-mode (or some similar outlining or mind-mapping) comes in. It reduces your search from N to logN. In general I find that logN is faster than solving the problem from first principles again (N!).