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.