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Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts + feelings that help you make future decisions and everything else is integrated into smaller and smaller summaries until it fades away entirely. I spent years clinging to every experience wanting not to forget anything, and being horrified when I couldn't remember. I documented everything. I wanted my memory to work more like infinite dropbox storage and less like a tool, evolved over millions of years, to keep me safe and making good choices.

Ask HN: How Did You Build Up Your Personal Knowledge Base? | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

While there is so much focus on education, the bottleneck for flourishing has not been *knowledge acquisition* for quite some time. Instead it seems to be within direction, discipline, and finding (or continuing to find) incentives to learn and build.

Agency and Schooling

Simon Sarris

Unlike simple machines, which cannot be copyrighted, software is automatically copyrighted by the creator and when it is licensed, the licensee cannot continue to use the software without obeying the terms of the license agreement. This allows for a flourishing software licensing market that works exactly as intended, no patents necessary.

Why Software Patents Are Bad, Period.

Why Software Patents are Bad, Period.

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