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Personally I'm almost exclusively here for the comments and rarely ever click into a link. On HN, I often take a look at the comments first, to get a feel for
by Silhouette 6y ago
Personally I'm almost exclusively here for the comments and rarely ever click into a link.
On HN, I often take a look at the comments first, to get a feel for whether the linked material is likely to be informative or thought-provoking. If there is an interesting discussion starting or if there is a submission that is getting lots of upvotes yet few comments (as this one was when I first saw it this evening) then that's usually a good sign.
FWIW, I've just spent well over an hour reading the article here all the way through, following some of the links to further pieces by the same author and others, and thinking about the ideas. It was probably the most interesting material I've seen all week.
- flreln 6y agoI'm glad you liked it! You should definitely check out Michael Nielsen's work: http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html.
- buildlove 6y agoThanks for linking this. I've been reading through it and I've found it very interesting and somewhat inspiring so far. I'm especially interested in his suggestion to use Anki to memorize things in your personal/social life, past events, and hobbies. I might look into these more creative ways to use Anki as a tool for establishing long term memories of things that are actually important to me.