[sova]

Keeping a daily journal with relevant work and discoveries is great. You can use a simple text editor and keep appending the current date to the top of the file and writing a few a lines. You can do one per-project, or a general one for your daily life and activities. I reel back through the tape every few months when I'm curious about the timeline of development/research/discovery.

Whittling it down, I think of it as Data, Insights, and Execution. First you need lots of data, then you get insights, and finally you can execute when you're close to maximizing on insights. Writing helps keep track of the first two, and if you want to teach then execution = communication, or how you package and present something.

[deepan_s]

Does the logs stick to your memory when you go through a bunch of them together at once every few months ? Will it not be an overload at one go ?

[sova]

What do you mean by "learning?" because I mean something specific: the ability to adapt to solving new problems. It's not something that is so easily reified and commodified. If "learning" is remembering a password or a combination of keystrokes, I would argue that that is closer to "rote memorization" and does not really reflect the character or qualities of "learning" that this method is more suitable for. You should only look through your long-term notes to help solidify what you already know. If it's still blurry, then I would argue the learning phase is not complete. Short-term notes like a notebook and scratchpad, or a dry-erase board and camera on your phone, are better for actual acquiring of knowledge.

[deepan_s]

You are spot on. Learning to me in this context is exactly what you have described "the ability to adapt to solving new problems". For e.g. within a social context a learning can be "when there is a mistake evaluate the intent rather the result". Another one related to work can be "Approach a product sale with an intent to solve the customer's pain and not to close the deal". There are too many of these learnings and many of them are deep. Thats why, I was wondering will one be able to get to the depth when many such learnings are reviewed at one go once every few months.