Efficiency errors; Meme control; Meeting in person
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I was having a great discussion yesterday about the difference between remembering and learning.
I struggle to remember information the first time I hear it, but some people take it in straight away. But for me, I get great satisfaction from a repetitive approach to learning.
Itâs a bit deeper than that though. To truly understand something, we can link separate pieces of possibly unrelated information to encourage recall.
âAssociative memoryâ is just this â the ability to piece together unrelated information for the greater good. For example, remembering a street name because of the smell from the restaurant on it.
This sensory reflection and linkage helps improve our learning massively, try it out!
p.s. Iâm taking a long overdue vacation next week, and I think itâll mean I wonât be sending a newsletter. This is scary for me, but it feels right.
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ⶠThe errors of efficiency
Although this article is advertising-focussed, itâs still a great read about the missed opportunities we can have when we try to over-optimise everything. Sometimes, itâs actually more beneficial to âwasteâ, because the consequences of being too efficient is that we lose natural growth and curiosity. Itâs easy to see how a car company could ultimately sell more if they werenât just targeting people who already owned one, right?
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â· How memes control everything
âMemes are basically models of realityâ was enough to get me hooked into this article. Itâs a brain-breaker, but is totally true. Culturally, they anchor you, intellectually they allow you to assert your superiority, and socially they boost your ego and status. Who knew, huh?
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âž Do we really need to meet in person?
Before you assume Iâm an anti-social monster, this article is about meetings đ. It raises the important question that I presume a lot of part-time office workers are contemplating â âwhat am I doing here that I canât do at home?â If weâre ultimately travelling somewhere to sit in silence all day and join a videoconference every couple of hours, are we really benefitting?
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The main reason Iâm sharing this one is because of a story the guest tells about how despite being on the planet for tens of thousands of years, we only invented the bicycle a few hundred years ago. Isnât that wild? Itâs a great metaphor for how things happen at the right time, rather than when you think they should.
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