I tend to get “nothing” from Reddit in the sense that you described. In other words, I can’t distill any insight from what I’ve been reading. However, I think this is a more general thing than something that just happens on Reddit or time wasting websites.
Sometimes I’ll study something for an hour or two and still can’t distill my learning into a few sentences. I think the human brain is good at retrieving knowledge upon inquiry rather than generating it on demand. Generating what we learned is a much harder thing to do for any type of task.
I agree, but I think that the answer to the immediate inquiry question is clearer if I shift my time to books or specific blogs instead of a subreddit where I may be liable to read about mindless conversations (sometimes even engage!).
About on-demand inquiries, this is somewhat off-topic, but it relates to how much can we retrieve after learning, or how many times we plateau. I’ve found that embedding Anki in my learning, I can’t just forget about immediate retrievals (go on learning while changing the subject) and the Anki questions will take care of that stuff!
I tend to get “nothing” from Reddit in the sense that you described. In other words, I can’t distill any insight from what I’ve been reading. However, I think this is a more general thing than something that just happens on Reddit or time wasting websites.
Sometimes I’ll study something for an hour or two and still can’t distill my learning into a few sentences. I think the human brain is good at retrieving knowledge upon inquiry rather than generating it on demand. Generating what we learned is a much harder thing to do for any type of task.
I agree, but I think that the answer to the immediate inquiry question is clearer if I shift my time to books or specific blogs instead of a subreddit where I may be liable to read about mindless conversations (sometimes even engage!).
About on-demand inquiries, this is somewhat off-topic, but it relates to how much can we retrieve after learning, or how many times we plateau. I’ve found that embedding Anki in my learning, I can’t just forget about immediate retrievals (go on learning while changing the subject) and the Anki questions will take care of that stuff!