Comment by accrual
18 hours ago
I personally find pleasure in reading my old notes, even ones that contain outdated ways of thinking, incorrect assumptions, etc. If anything, it helps me reflect on the growth that's occurred. I agree it's not necessarily productive to log everything all the time, though.
Me too. But again, its nice to re-read old notes which are "lost to time". The author of this piece is clearly finding the past is actively influencing the present:
> At least for me — and most of the people I know — we got a garbage dump full of crufty links and pieces of text we hardly ever revisit. And we feel guilty and sad about it.
It'll never work if you can't leave things behind.