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On the other hand just because something is written down somewhere is not at all equal to 'having access to it'. Once you forget it it might as well not exist a
by pi-e-sigma 3y ago
On the other hand just because something is written down somewhere is not at all equal to 'having access to it'. Once you forget it it might as well not exist at all. The information needs to be internalized to be any useful, and for that at least some of it needs to be kept in your memory
- staunton 3y agoAnd that's why digital documents are better (for average use-cases) than paper. Another argument for using technology to make things easier at the cost of possibly losing skills you no longer urgently need (such as "maintaining a library of paper books").
- magicalhippo 3y agoI'm terrible at recalling specifics but I feel that my "superpower" is that I'm really good at remembering if say a solution to a certain problem exists, and just enough breadcrumbs to find that solution again, be it a few key words that I can search for or similar. This coupled with an broad interest in just about anything means I can often help people far outside my specific field, usually rather swiftly as well.