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>abandon this pursuit and let your human mind perform it’s most wonderful magic: synthesizing, compressing and expanding mental inputs. Not sure if you're tryi
by jasode 4y ago
>abandon this pursuit and let your human mind perform it’s most wonderful magic: synthesizing, compressing and expanding mental inputs.
Not sure if you're trying to convey some "zen" advice but the way I actually synthesize & connect information is to take notes. My previous comment on how many thinkers use notes like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30331114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30331114
If you're suggesting that the mind makes more synthesis & connections without notes, I guess that's possible but that's not what happens in my case. Maybe that just means brains are different.
- rsync 4y agoI don’t know anything about zen. I just observed myself cataloging facts and trivia … and I noticed the real insights came about spontaneously. I decided that every minute spent note taking was better spent reading or re-reading or simply walking and thinking. I agree with you that YMMV.
- boris 4y agoThe point of taking notes is not to preserve the information (or at least not primarily) but to load it into the brain where the connections can magically be made, as you put it. Rich Hickey has a nice talk on this called "Hammock Driven Development".