I personally don’t find anything on the list disagreeable (including the summarization and mentoring items).
Summarization is a pretty well established memory consolidation technique to improve long-term recall of information. The OP does not explicitly state this is the aim, but that was my assumption, and if so I think it is uncontroversial that that is beneficial.
Regarding the mentoring, the item on the list was “you would have a good mentor” (which I agree with) and then underneath is “One way to do this is to email people” (which I also agree with in the sense that emailing is clearly one way to do this—I do not necessarily feel this is a good way or the best way, but the OP does not say it is, just that it is “one way”).
I can see why you would disagree that you “should have a ‘good mentor’ by emailing people to request that they mentor me” (I also disagree that such an approach is close to optimal) but I do not think this is what the OP says.
I disagree with the summarization suggestion for the same reason that I disagree with many of the items—I don’t have (much of) the problem they are trying to solve, so why would I expend effort to attack a problem I don’t have?
The most obvious is “carrying extra batteries for my phone.” My phone never runs out of battery; I should not carry batteries that I will never use. Similarly: I don’t have a problem with losing things, such that I need extra. (If I had extra, I would plausibly give them away to save physical space!) I don’t find myself wishing I remembered more of my thoughts, such that I should take the effort to capture and retain them. And I don’t feel the need to remember more than I already do about the stuff that I read, so that makes me not inclined to take time away from the rest of my life and spend it remembering more things.
I personally don’t find anything on the list disagreeable (including the summarization and mentoring items).
Summarization is a pretty well established memory consolidation technique to improve long-term recall of information. The OP does not explicitly state this is the aim, but that was my assumption, and if so I think it is uncontroversial that that is beneficial.
Regarding the mentoring, the item on the list was “you would have a good mentor” (which I agree with) and then underneath is “One way to do this is to email people” (which I also agree with in the sense that emailing is clearly one way to do this—I do not necessarily feel this is a good way or the best way, but the OP does not say it is, just that it is “one way”).
I can see why you would disagree that you “should have a ‘good mentor’ by emailing people to request that they mentor me” (I also disagree that such an approach is close to optimal) but I do not think this is what the OP says.
I disagree with the summarization suggestion for the same reason that I disagree with many of the items—I don’t have (much of) the problem they are trying to solve, so why would I expend effort to attack a problem I don’t have?
The most obvious is “carrying extra batteries for my phone.” My phone never runs out of battery; I should not carry batteries that I will never use. Similarly: I don’t have a problem with losing things, such that I need extra. (If I had extra, I would plausibly give them away to save physical space!) I don’t find myself wishing I remembered more of my thoughts, such that I should take the effort to capture and retain them. And I don’t feel the need to remember more than I already do about the stuff that I read, so that makes me not inclined to take time away from the rest of my life and spend it remembering more things.