# 2024-10-29

-   [[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.
    -   [[Active recall and passive repetition in the digital stream and garden]]

-   Trying [[HeliBoard]].
    -   Mainly to avoid the annoying display of 'Passwords' that Gboard does when in [[Termux]].
    -   Hey, turns out HeliBoard does it too. Must be a Termux issue.
    -   Still, I like that this is fully open source and available via [[F-Droid]].

-   [[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]]

-   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.