Cognitive Revolutions



Mathematics is a an abstraction and it is best broadcast using mathematical notation (a form of writing).
The permanence of sand drawings seem to be the limiting factor here.
Excerpt: “To appreciate how revolutionary Ascher’s perspective was, consider that before her work and that of her contemporaries, scholars generally assumed that only societies with writing could truly practice mathematics. They constrained their investigations of mathematical knowledge to textual sources and ignored many other practices seen in societies with oral traditions that did not use a written language.“


We get familiar with convenience rather quickly
Podcasts are more accessible and multimodal

Memecoins as a measure of attention (+ popularity)
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people who tell us how to think about a thing
people whose choices (resulting from their thinking) inspire us
In response to a tweet saying: out brains forget things for a reason
2nd brain is an attempt to evolve past that. Should we?
An AI assistant shouldn't have these constraints, but even those are optimized for memory.