I’ve made a habit of writing down the ideas that resonate with me, along with where they came from. You can browse them by the themes below.
- Cognition
- Writing
- Language
- Philosophy
- Learning
- Creativity
- Photography
- Memory
- Knowledge
- Reading
- Communication
- Narrative
- Connection
- Attention
- Noticing
- Product Design
- Meaning
- Framing
- Art
- Society
- Perception
- Product-design
References
4 notes on Memory Clear
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Smelling as time travelI underlined this part in Kaveh Akbar’s book Martyr! about how Orkideh could smell lavender to travel to any other point in his life. I used to walk with a sprig of lavender in my pocket—smelling it, I could go to …
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Time is memoryI am reading The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabbert, and in the essay titled “The Unreality of Time,” she writes about Henry Bergson’s concept of time. Apparently, Albert Einstein famously said “there is no …
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Recollection, with all the feelings that accompanied itWhile reading The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, I began to wonder about the difference between knowledge that feels like mine and knowledge that simply exists out there. Nayler wrote the following when a …
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Posting a memory forward to a distant futureI am reading The Overstory by Richard Powers, and in the book Patricia tells her botany students (emphasis mine): “Billions of years ago, a single, fluke, self-copying cell learned how to turn a barren ball of …