The biggest example is this: I was posting interesting concepts that I had collected in my Anki deck on my FB feed, but I realized there was a problem because of the oversimplification of the clozes that I posted, which functioned as curiosity stoppers. I wrote a more detailed explanation here.
One big pattern is that summaries that you create for yourself, such as the keywords you use, the clozes of your flashcards, or the titles that you come up with in your diary, are Private Language. They are working well for you, but if you don’t make a Deliberate Effort to tune them, they will not work for others, or worse, they will lead you astray, as explained by Duncan.
Can you give a couple examples of how you’ve used it?
The biggest example is this: I was posting interesting concepts that I had collected in my Anki deck on my FB feed, but I realized there was a problem because of the oversimplification of the clozes that I posted, which functioned as curiosity stoppers. I wrote a more detailed explanation here.
One big pattern is that summaries that you create for yourself, such as the keywords you use, the clozes of your flashcards, or the titles that you come up with in your diary, are Private Language. They are working well for you, but if you don’t make a Deliberate Effort to tune them, they will not work for others, or worse, they will lead you astray, as explained by Duncan.