On Impermanence
I recently read Joan Westenberg's "I Deleted My Second Brain" (via aid's "On bookmarking and saving things", many thanks) and a line really struck me:
I no longer worship the permanence of text.
I think that's pretty beautiful, and as aid says in "On bookmarking...",
I still think that no information learned is wasted, even if the memory does not hold onto it.
My own memory is so permeable that I journal for the explicit purpose of remembering things, but there is only so much that I say in my journals, and so much left unsaid that is still of importance.
I admire people who can use personal knowledge management systems with success, but I find the concept too overwhelming to accomplish myself. But maybe that's okay. Maybe I can learn to just let things go and move on.
Maybe I have to.