Discovered from Andy Matuschak, who acquired the term from Scott Alexander

From Andy Matuschak

Andy Matuschak describes a related problem in Conversation with others often emphasizes the most well-understood elements of an idea. A possible solution to this is to Use intentionally ambiguous naming to avoid restricting growing or uncertain ideas.

Andy Matuschak group meeting

An interesting looking Incremental Reading product that Andy Matuschak is working on.

Plenty of other readings from Piotr Wozniak, Andy Matuschak, Michael Nielsen, and others in the Supermemo, Anki, and other communities.

Pretty much isomorphic to Spaced Everything by Andy Matuschak

I feel it put a name on the idea that I had been thinking about after first revisiting Anki and Spaced Repetition in 2021/02. With Spaced Repetition, Memory is a choice. That same idea translates to consumption in the form of Incremental Reading. From there, I imagine that this Cognitive Optimization way of interacting with information may have even larger implications (the size of those implications has expanded thanks to Andy Matuschak coining this term).

Andy Matuschak, How Might We Learn

I wrote a reply on Andy Matuschak’s patreon discussing the Vision Pro and I think the basic ideas from that are holding

Andy Matuschak and his Morning writing practice

From Andy Matuschak, The most effective readers and thinkers I know don’t take notes when reading

See Andy Matuschak notes on that paper here:

Andy Matuschak

An online book by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen.

From Andy Matuschak notes on Spaced Repetition creating a sense of Wu Wei

From Andy Matuschak

Andy Matuschak, https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4bR1HVvDUhMXDm5SJB4Tiw4xGbrm9AfXWgbc

One can see when browsing Andy Matuschak notes that linking alone can create a bit of this endless wandering effect. Wikipedia is in some ways not free of this issue either.

Andy Matuschak Spaced repetition memory system

This is opposed the Andy Matuschak idea that Use phones to collect and triage, not (usually) to read.

This runs counter to Andy Matuschak idea that most effective readers don’t take notes while they read: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/The_most_effective_readers_and_thinkers_I_know_don’t_take_notes_when_reading

Andy Matuschak notes

Coined by Andy Matuschak. First read it in his notes here:

Focused software development work is self-abnegating, Andy Matuschak

Participated in a very interesting discussion with Andy Matuschak and others about malleable user interfaces and AI generated user interfaces