marginalium noun

the notes one makes in the margins.

A short note on

the lost art of memory

November 6, 2024

source: thebasecamp.substack.com

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

The Lost Art of Memory. A commentary on novelty’s rise, memory’s fall, and what vanished in between:

as a people who have almost unending access to notepads, note apps, and voice and video recording, it seems reasonable for us to be a people who have let memory slide in favor of creativity … Yet this convenience likely comes at a cost—we may be losing access to a fundamentally different way of thinking and perceiving, one that emerges only through a deeper form of engagement with memory

If you don’t do the thinking, the thinking will be done for you.

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