2024-10-29
*planted: 29/10/2024last tended: 29/10/2024
- Human physiology - the processes and functions of living organisms. Rather than, say, the structure of the body or evolutionary history.
- Passive repetition can result in an illusion of knowing.
- Better to do active repetition when you can.
- Writing in a digital garden or on social media is a form of active repetition.
- Actually, you could also do passive repetition in a digital garden.
- Just copying and pasting text from elsewhere would be largely passive repetition. Similar to just underlining or highlighting.
- I think the journal aspect of a digital garden is good for active repetition.
- A space to summarise ideas in your own words, and for "blurting".
- So really, that's more the stream than the garden?
- I suppose you can do active recall in both. But I'd say the stream is your working area for it, and the garden where you store what sticks long term.
- One of the key uses of a stream and garden for me is active recall and repetition. So worth thinking about it a bit more.
- Trying HeliBoard.
- Learning blurt
- Amino acids are the building blocks of life.
- They are what constitute proteins.
- Biochemistry
- Traditional social media / microblogging can also be great for active recall.
- Particularly as dialogue and group discussion is an excellent prompt for active recall.
- However for me they also have a huge problem - distraction.
- I can't go on the Fediverse without it ending up as a bit of a mindless scroll fest. (Which, admittedly of often a useful tool for information discovery…)
- Learning blurt
- Bacteria
- Humans are teeming with them.
- Trillions in the gut alone.
- We couldn't exist without them. They could happily exist without us.
- Microbiology
- Bacteria
- I listened to a good ACFM episode on the gut microbiome recently: ACFM Trip 41: Trust Your Gut
- I think I'll explore "microblurting" as a thing.
- Is microblurting a useful way to do active recall? Should one blurt in public spaces? We'll find out.
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