I had this when I was a kid. I broke out of it as a teen thanks to taking spaced repetition systems seriously. For one unfortunate semester in college almost a

I had this when I was a kid. I broke out of it as a teen thanks to taking spaced repetition systems seriously. For one unfortunate semester in college almost a decade ago I tried to put _everything_ I found interesting into SuperMemo. I got good with all of its advanced features - adding web pages directly, incremental reading, the works. After a few weeks I was spending more time reading my SM queue than actually adding new things to it. After about 2 months I dropped out because I was spending too much time and mental energy using SuperMemo to do, you know, _work_. I have never, ever given myself a hard time for being forgetful since. 99.999% of the information that flows through my eyes and into my brain vanishes into pleasant unintelligible neural noise and I would add more 9s to that if I could. Because the 0.001% of genuinely insightful, evergreen, _resonant_ ideas that stick around and elaborate my worldview is beautiful beyond to me.