8 published lessons with this tag.
Your most novel thinking arrives as fleeting signals. Without a capture practice, you are systematically destroying your own cognitive raw material.
Not all thoughts decay at the same rate. A fleeting architectural insight has minutes before it degrades beyond recovery. A stable reference fact has weeks. Treating every thought with the same urgency — or the same patience — guarantees you lose the wrong ones.
Write down insights from conversations immediately — social memory is especially lossy.
Recent events disproportionately influence your perception of what is normal or likely.
Your emotional state when you perceive something becomes part of what you perceive.
You remember things better in the context where you learned them.
When evaluating past decisions reconstruct the context that existed at the time.
Feedback you only hear once is feedback you will distort, remember selectively, or forget entirely.