How You Know
19 hours ago
- The author felt uneasy about forgetting details from books despite reading many.
- Hilbert's quote 'a perfect formulation of a problem is already half its solution' reinforced the idea that the effect of reading persists even if forgotten.
- Reading and experience train your mental model; the mind is like a compiled program whose source is lost.
- The value of reading is not in remembered facts but in the improved mental models.
- Important books should be reread because the same book is 'compiled' differently at different life stages.
- Technology may allow reliving experiences to learn from them again, similar to rereading books.