One thing that saddens me is that it is already hard enough to learn things, but as they say, use it or lose it.

And much of the things we learn, we are going to lose eventually.

Five, six months ago, I was working on Rohkun and even though I was a total stranger to coding and system design, I still intuitively understood a lot of stuff by exposing myself to correct material and thinking through it.

But today I have lost my ways. I am not as good as I was during that moment.

But sure enough, if I invest two or three weeks into that thing again, I will be good at it.

I have low entry or exit time cost when it comes to domains, but the trade-off is I forget fast.

So even if I’m working a lot on understanding something, building the intuition, that thing is fleeting after a few months. If I don’t keep using this skill, I’m going to lose it.

That’s why I guess formal education has not done much for me.

Let’s say I learn something about a domain and If I switch domain, the previous one is gone.

But I might be overplaying it because it still lets me have significant medici effect and cross-domain pollination of ideas.

Maybe the residual of the intuition is strong enough, but not too strong that it will be universally recallable at any point irrespective of devotion to it over time.

Another framing can be that maybe the neural pathways have been built. It’s just that I’m not activating them, and that’s why they go a bit dormant. But if I try to fire them back up again, I will still have it.

Maybe I should not ditch something and expect that I can recall it fully on the first chain encounter instead of doing some warm-up first.

That means I have to have a good warm-up protocol.