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I cannot stress enough how much you can reduce "how many things you need to hold in short term memory to do your job" by just keeping a notebook (or file, or wi
by eschneider 3y ago
I cannot stress enough how much you can reduce "how many things you need to hold in short term memory to do your job" by just keeping a notebook (or file, or wiki, or whatever works for you) and writing things down.
- layer8 3y agoSo, don’t derive it from first principles each time?
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoTherein lies the wisdom
- piuantiderp 3y agoJust the first time
- apozem 3y agoI've been writing everything down in a notes app recently and I love it. If I think of a good Christmas gift for my brother in July, it goes in the app. If someone recommends an interesting-sounding book, it goes in the app. If an app at work has a specific or convoluted build process, it goes in the app. As someone who spent his entire childhood getting in trouble for forgetting things, it's been life-changing. Computers remember things so much better than my dumb brain.
- themarlzy 3y agoWhat app do you use?
- EFreethought 3y agoIt is amazing to me how many people do not write things down. It's like everybody wants to turn every job into a contest to see who can spin the most plates in their head.
- eschneider 3y agoYour engineering notebook is a gift to future you.