Am I smarter or stupider for not memorizing notes like I did as a student? I still take notes, and sometimes refer to them. (I also take a fair amount that never get read.) And I still learn things. But the learning I do is either because I read something once and it's already internalized ("Myanmar's anti-military activists have started using bombs,"), or because I've done something a lot and it's become ingrained ("docker exec -it phan bash").
There just aren't big lists of things I need to memorize, like there once were. Also, I'm certain I'm learning slower than I did as a student. But that could again be good or bad -- maybe I stopped learning as fast because I picked all the low-hanging fruit and I'm busy using it.
I certainly don't see lots of low-hanging fruit like I used to. But I always wonder if that's a failure of imagination.
There just aren't big lists of things I need to memorize, like there once were. Also, I'm certain I'm learning slower than I did as a student. But that could again be good or bad -- maybe I stopped learning as fast because I picked all the low-hanging fruit and I'm busy using it.
I certainly don't see lots of low-hanging fruit like I used to. But I always wonder if that's a failure of imagination.