Reading about the wonders of the memex method, by Cory Doctorow. He notes how he called the blog his "outward brain" back in 2002 and I have jokingly used similar language when talking about books or movies I had blogged about. I remembered the blogging but not what I had written and had to look it up before continuing the conversation. Cory also has this interesting bit which I had never considered: « For more than a decade, I’ve revisited “this day in history” from my own blogging archive, looking back one year, five years, ten years (and then, eventually, 15 years and 20 years). … This structured, daily work of looking back on where I’ve been is more valuable to helping me think about where I’m going than I can say. »
https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/
via @chgowiz