Human memory is squishy, and that’s great. You retain facts + feelings that help you make future decisions and everything else is integrated into smaller and smaller summaries until it fades away entirely. I spent years clinging to every experience wanting not to forget anything, and being horrified when I couldn’t remember. I documented everything. I wanted my memory to work more like infinite dropbox storage and less like a tool, evolved over millions of years, to keep me safe and making good choices.

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news.ycombinator.com

Ask HN: How Did You Build Up Your Personal Knowledge Base? | Hacker News

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I don’t want to remember everything on its own. I want to remember connections between things, and the larger and larger insights that arise from those connections.