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Field Notes
sidelong.app/pub/field-notesOccasional essays and working notes.
Drafts
2Content ideas
3The spotlight and the lantern
Drafting now. Gopnik's two modes of attention, by way of Pollan.
A year of the same walk
Same route, every morning, for a year. The route never changed. The walker did.
The default mode network, in plain words
Wright's chapters on the wandering mind deserve a lay translation. One metaphor, no diagrams.
Notes
2Wright: distraction works like an addiction. The module weakens if you stop feeding it.
Next month: one piece written entirely from the Gunaratana highlights.
Publishing
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Why you forget everything you read
The forgetting is normal. Losing it for good is optional.
You finish a book, close the cover, and a week later you can barely summarize the argument. It feels like a personal failing. It is not. It is the default setting.
Forgetting is not just a side effect of memory. It's not memory failing. It's part of what memory is supposed to do.
The research here is blunt. Highlighting feels like progress and does almost nothing on its own. Retention comes from friction: wrestling with an idea, restating it in your own words, and meeting it again at the moment you can use it.
Keep writing
Published pages hold still.
Publishing takes a snapshot. Keep editing the draft as roughly as you like; the live page only changes when you push an update, never by accident.
Why you forget everything you read
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