[kleer001]

I try to learn new things with the goal of:

(1) attaining an intuitive sense for them

(2) memorizing as little jargon as possible (only the amount necessary to look up things later).

(3) making my life richer

(4) making more accurate predictions about the world I encounter

How? It varies. Lots of lectures and listening with no written notes. I had a professor who spoke so quickly I couldn't take notes as he spoke so I learned to listen as learning.

Materially I make entries in a Google Doc which morphs often. The headings change and move around, entries are deleted and modified.

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Precise dates and proper nouns do not interest me. IMHO that's all dry memorization, bits that don't connect to other bits, that's stamp collecting and tantamount to hoarding (which I think is gross, a literal failure of hygene).