Ask HN: Do you maintain a log of what you learn? How often do you go over them?

Re:Ask HN: Do you maintain a log of what you learn? How ofte... by deepan_s on Monday May 11, 2020 @01:50PM (#23144891)

This approach works well for knowledge pockets where the discovery of application of knowledge is naive. When you want to extract a tar file and don't remember the command your brain know you have saved the command somewhere in a log and you can find it. But think of knowledge areas where you have to connect a few different learnings together to form an intuition on the application of knowledge to a problem.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you maintain a log of what you learn? How ofte... by AnimalMuppet on Monday May 11, 2020 @05:03PM (#23147047)

For stuff like that, I think that I keep the intuition without having to write it down and review it later. But I could be mistaken. If I don't use the intuition often enough to keep it available in my mental toolbox, then I don't use it often enough for forgetting it to be a major loss.

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