This is where ideas like Spaced Repetition and Incremental Reading could have an impact.

If I were to build my own Spaced Repetition system…

A generalized version of Spaced Repetition

With Spaced Repetition, remembering a piece of information has a clear time-cost. This means, as long as we are willing to pay the cost, we can decide to not forget a piece of information.

This was a bit revolutionary for me as a concept, and it was one of the main pushes that started me down this Spaced Repetition, Incremental Reading, etc rabbit hole in 2021/02

I began using Anki in February of this year, 2021. I had saved a link to Anki years earlier, I completely forgot why I had saved that link. In an attempt to get through my backlog of links, I finally looked into Anki and learned about Spaced Repetition.

I experiment with ways to expand the use of Spaced Repetition for personal learning and task management.

A very long history of Spaced Repetition according to Piotr Wozniak

Related to Anki and Spaced Repetition

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).

• Only homework is to keep up Spaced Repetition

Spaced Repetition

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

• Spaced Repetition for memorization, learning, reading

Create a course that teaches Bayes’ Theorem and Solomonoff Induction. Integrate the course with Spaced Repetition learning.

• Turn that into Spaced Repetition cards