Yes, forgetting gives space to focus on new ideas. But the author paints it as if the fear of losing information was irrational. It isn't. Exactly with the same

Yes, forgetting gives space to focus on new ideas. But the author paints it as if the fear of losing information was irrational. It isn't. Exactly with the same arguments, the author could persuade us that: - HDD is unnecessary - just use RAM. - Git history makes no sense. Most ideas aren't new or they don't make sense. And even if they do, we may never have time to put them into action. But this 1% (or maybe 0.1%) of ideas actually make sense. We may never revisit 90% of our thoughts and ideas, and 9% revisit without our gain, but for this 1%, it is still worth it to take notes. All discoveries, startups, books, and works of art come from this tiny fraction of ideas that were actually good. And on a more mundane level, think about all well-thought-out gifts. It is super naive to claim that since most ideas are of little value, then all ideas have no value.