When I read scientific publications, I risk having thoughts that vanish within minutes because I didn’t write them down, leaving no thread to pull me back. Recording them creates another risk: never returning to them. But it’s still better than never recording them at all.

I want to start a tradition of recording notes so I’m required to consolidate my thoughts and discuss papers.

I take notes because they require me to sit with an idea long enough to integrate it into my worldview.

On the general approach

My resources, my time, my entertainment.

Being too careful about which tests are worth running is mostly social caution dressed up as scientific caution. I see no good reason for either in a hobby and I pay for my own compute when I get curious.

The cost of a weekend spent on a dead end is small. The cost of never checking is that you end up with a folder full of things you meant to think about and never did.

Following external inputs pulls me out of my own interests. The universe sets the rules. It has better lore than any of us can invent. If this exploration is how I spend my time, I want to choose my own directions every single time.