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> "You can do something 100 times, and as long as you can look it up somewhere, it is okay to not memorize how to do it."

We used to memorise information, now we memorise meta-information - a mental map of concepts and trigger keywords. We have learned to quickly grok new concepts and we still have to understand how things work in order to do anything.



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