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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 11 Mar \ parent \ on: Compressing Information for Other Humans and Self mostly_harmless

If we agree with 'I write to know what I am thinking' we have to agree that we don't have a good sense of our thoughts and experiences if we don't compress them, and in some cases, condense them into metrics.

This is a Deep Truth: the act of forcing something into a compressed form is a useful kind of training. I do this all the time, explicitly, but have never considered it this way. Thanks.