- Focus on learning and retaining the fundamentals. Repeatedly, when possible. Why just the fundamentals? So I can keep a good mental model of how the systems w

- Focus on learning and retaining the fundamentals. Repeatedly, when possible. Why just the fundamentals? So I can keep a good mental model of how the systems work, in my head. - Take notes[1] and document the fundamentals (for review), trivia, detritus, step-by-step procedures, and problems+resolutions for issues I encountered. I try not to keep this in my head, anymore. I have too many complex systems to manage at work. The days where I could keep everything in my head are long gone. - When I'm taking notes, I try to write them out conversationally as if I were explaining it to a technically-adept person for the first time. Why? Because I'm technically-adept and often when I refer back to something I did a year ago, I want to remember and get back on track as quickly as possible. This approach will also help when I eventually point an LLM at them. - I'm a visual person, so screenshots and photos and videos and whatever other visual information, as much as possible. 1. https://obsidian.md https://obsidian.md with the Omnisearch plug-in.