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I think this resonates really well with an old HN comment (one of my all time favorites) by Alan Kay on reading and remembering: https://news.ycombinator.com/it

by marttt 4y ago

I think this resonates really well with an old HN comment (one of my all time favorites) by Alan Kay on reading and remembering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11809285 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11809285 "The simple heuristic is 'relax'." In other words: sleep on it? Might be due to my soon 40yo brain, but I've come to more and more value forgetting things -- hoping that the really relevant to me bits of any information will "float to the surface" of my brain by themselves, over some time.

marttt 4y ago
Some more context -- Alan Kay discussing whether he has read 20,000 books in his life or not, and he also drifts to things like remembering and knowledge accumulation in general: https://www.quora.com/How-did-Alan-Kay-read-20k-books https://www.quora.com/How-did-Alan-Kay-read-20k-books I don't know what it is, but I feel like I could read prof Kay's musings over and over again. There's always an almost magical clarity in the way he explains things, and a lot of empathy and respect towards the listener. What a great mind.