The book you've been reading toward.
A Working Memory
sidelong.app/pub/working-memoryA book about reading, remembering, and paying attention. Drafting chapter by chapter.
Drafts
2Content ideas
3Chapter three: The seven-second tax
Hendrick's interruption research scaled to a reading life. The arithmetic belongs in part two.
Interlude: What the meditators know
Gunaratana as the practical counterweight to the neuroscience chapters.
Chapter four: The second brain fallacy
Against outsourcing memory entirely. Abdaal's system as both hero and cautionary tale.
Notes
2Working structure: part one is memory (forgetting, retention), part two is attention (spotlight vs lantern, stillness).
Every chapter opens on a scene, not a study. Readers keep the scene.
The corpus
Years of research, one place.
Kindle highlights from every book you've marked up. Interviews and lectures with full transcripts. The articles, papers, and field notes you've been collecting. All of it searchable, all of it citable.
Essentials: Understand & Improve Memory Using Science-Based Tools
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Think across it
Questions only your research can answer.
Chase a theme across fifty sources, test an argument against your research, or commission a deep research report. Answers cite your corpus, and reports land back in the library as sources you can cite in chapters.
The manuscript
The book is the project, drafts are the chapters.
Keep the whole manuscript in one project: a draft per chapter, working notes and the outline beside them, and your sources surfacing as each chapter takes shape.
A Working Memory
A book about reading, remembering, and paying attention. Drafting chapter by chapter.
Chapter three: The seven-second tax
Hendrick's interruption research scaled to a reading life. The arithmetic belongs in part two.
Interlude: What the meditators know
Gunaratana as the practical counterweight to the neuroscience chapters.
Chapter four: The second brain fallacy
Against outsourcing memory entirely. Abdaal's system as both hero and cautionary tale.
Chapter five: The caffeine window
Huberman's post-learning protocol as the practical chapter. Ends part one on something the reader can do tonight.
Interlude: What the meditators know
Gunaratana as the counterweight to the neuroscience chapters. Short, scene-first, no studies.
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