when i come across good quotes, i write them down. the below are those i collected between my last quotes post and the day i published this — november 19, 2023 through august 5, 2024. [T]he work that needs to be done is not a finite list of tasks, it
Epistemic status: splitting hairs. Originally published as a shortform; thanks @Arjun Panickssery for telling me to publish this as a full post. There’s been a lot of recent work on memory. This is great, but popular communication of that progress consistently mixes up active recall and spaced repetition. That
[Note: this piece is still very much a draft, but (a) I thought it might be useful enough to the occasional person that it was worth posting, and more proximately, (b) I needed to post something for a blog-a-thon I was hosting. However, as such, it’s not quite finished