Externalizing your memory to machines ultimately makes you less productive.

It feels like the opposite when you first do it. That’s what today’s products depend on.

But what feels like an advantage is really just seeing the isolated definition of a task become optimized.

Real world tasks do not function according to such isolation definitions.

In the long run, externalization causes you to do many things you wouldn’t have done; things that are grossly counterproductive, but extremely easy to put into the tool.

Productivity apps, monitor workstations, etc. are akin to junk food to your long term health goals.

The real world utility of biological memory is unparalleled.

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In this episode I discuss the potential of the human mind in terms of assumed versus actual boundaries. People frame their mental potential in terms of space and time complexity (although most don't call it that); in other words, they assume their potential is limited by the speed and space of the task (how much time it takes, the amount of raw information involved). But nature computes in ways that are very different from how computation gets defined and analyzed by scientists. In this episode I extend "memory palace" techniques to infinite palaces, showing that the assumed boundaries on mental processing are more fiction than reality, and that our minds are, for all intents and purposes, infinite, and should be treated as such.

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You can read more effectively by hovering above words and waiting until the text you thought would be too much to comprehend materializes in the mind. But if you try, sometimes it seems to work and sometimes it doesn't. But if you learn to hover and wait, it eventually always works. There is a universal pattern ay play here, that occurs in many areas of life. In this episode I talk about the need to enter into situations imperfectly, then "hovering" and waiting until you again achieve what works.

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In this episode I discuss how to be more niche in your life and with your projects, and why that's the only way to truly grow.

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In this episode I discuss how standing too close to the techniques we use can end up ruining their ability to help us.

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In this episode I argue that all that is required to produce your best work is the title of that work. The title captures the essence of what you're hoping to communicate, while everything else can be achieved automatically. The "everything else" includes the structures, transitions and details that will appear very deliberate, and at times even "academic", yet in reality came about my simply bringing your automatic self to the essence of what you hope to communicate.

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Most of us want some kind of work-life balance. We tend to assume this means creating a distinct separation between when we work and when we play. In this episode I argue that balance is more naturally achieved when we bring work and life together into a single flow.

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In this episode I argue that it often makes more sense to go through life caring less. In today's society we are told we need to care more about how we look, how we speak, what we contribute to, etc. But we all care by default, and the real challenge is caring less about things that don't matter.

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