Collector’s Fallacy
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The Collector’s Fallacy • Zettelkasten Method
There’s a tendency in all of us to gather useful stuff and feel good about it. To collect is a reward in itself.
to know about something’ isn’t the same as ‘knowing something’
same holds true when it comes to managing bookmarks. We stumble upon an interesting web page and don’t want to lose the information, thus we keep it as a bookmark
Pressing the ‘copy’ button is immediately rewarded with copied paper. These reinforcements are satisfying. From there stems the illusion we have done something meaningful: “Look how big my pile of paper is
Bookmarking a web page is satisfying because we get rid of the fear of losing access to the information
read a text effectively to assimilate its ideas and learn from it.
We need to extract what’s inside and write things down.
Once we forget what we knew, having read the text becomes worthless.