71–80 of 108 posts
If you spend each day remembering all previous days, eventually you'll just be remembering days you spent remembering other days. (Which is what the author is doing: Remembering remembering).
Seems rather maddening. Why not learn a language or something?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
My wife and I have been keeping a daily journal since our first child was born in 2014 - about 100 - 200 words a day. (And before that i’d been doing it just for myself since 2006.) Besides just having it to go back to and read, something I’m really excited about is llm context windows getting large enough that I can feed the whole thing in (it’s about 1.5 million words) and ask questions. grep only goes so far.
I've been keeping a food diary since Nov 2014. It started off as a reminder to myself to eat better and fewer calories. I don't want to break the chain I even recorded my meals during over a week of no power after hurricane Fiona. Here's my supper on day 1 if anyone is curious lol (note format is: day, month, year) Saturday 01/11/2014 Beans, Baked, molasses and pork Saturday 01/11/2014 Rice, Basmati, 1 cup Saturday 0…
I learned that this is how much of my approach to life works: Zeal followed by a gradual decline into indifference.
This strikes me as possibly the most profound form of navel-gazing ever developed, wherein the navel becomes a black hole. If you spend each day remembering all previous days, eventually you'll just be remembering days you spent remembering other days. (Which is what the author is doing: Remembering remembering). Seems rather maddening. Why not learn a language or something?
Shout out to the 1se app! Its been great.
I'm not sure. Maybe it's because I have a poor memory to begin with, but I just don't see the reason for this. It reminds me of older people (mind, I'm over 60 myself) who spend all their time reminiscing. Isn't it better to look forward rather than back? Approaching retirement, my pressing question is: what do I want to do next ?
The author of the piece says: "The great benefit of this process, even as I struggle with it, is it gives me a rounded view of my life."
While I can understand that spending some time reviewing the past can have value, what this person is doing seems excessive and I'm not sure I'd call it 'rounded'. I think in my case thinking about the past can reveal how things have or haven't changed in fundamental ways. For example, I was reminded yesterday of a local startup in my area that was working on a neural network accelerator chip in the early 90s and reflected on how many companies are now trying to do the same. There's nothing new under the sun as a wise man once said - what has been will be again. This kind of reminiscing gives perspective.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been keeping a food diary since Nov 2014. It started off as a reminder to myself to eat better and fewer calories. I don't want to break the chain I even recorded my meals during over a week of no power after hurricane Fiona. Here's my supper on day 1 if anyone is curious lol (note format is: day, month, year) Saturday 01/11/2014 Beans, Baked, molasses and pork Saturday 01/11/2014 Rice, Basmati, 1 cup Saturday 0…
I did this for a few years. I started off listing component volumes and mass etc. Towards the end I was just noting “good” or “bad” (like how I thought I went) on a calendar, then not even consistently. I learned that this is how much of my approach to life works: Zeal followed by a gradual decline into indifference.
This strikes me as possibly the most profound form of navel-gazing ever developed, wherein the navel becomes a black hole. If you spend each day remembering all previous days, eventually you'll just be remembering days you spent remembering other days. (Which is what the author is doing: Remembering remembering). Seems rather maddening. Why not learn a language or something?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually found this article when searching for things related to spaced repetition. But I am wondering how well it would work due to the sequential nature of the stuff being remembered. I think it's probably easier to navigate from one day to the next with the method of loci or similar, than it is to recall a single day just from its date.
Yes, you wouldn't use a date. A more likely structure would be: - the front of a flashcard shows a photo from 20 June and the back shows a photo from 21 June - the front of another flashcard shows that same 21 June photo and the back shows a photo from 22 June - and so on! If you have multiple photos per day... maybe you could create a mosaic for each day? Bonus if the mosaic randomizes the order of items on every sh…