I often read things where I see start with “introduction” (and it’s not some sort of meaningful introduction like in Thinking Physics) and end with “summary”, and both look totally useless. Remarkably, I can’t remember such thing anywhere on lesswrong. But I don’t understand, is it just useless water, is it a question of general level of intelligence, or am I missing some useful piece of cognitive tech?
If there is indeed some useful piece, how to check do I already have it or don’t?
Then probably I was wrong to omit that I have seen summary in Rust official guide. Which made me doubt it’s useless.
Though I also now suspect that I have much better memory than most people. (I mean, I always thought that it’s normal to remember near verbatim first few sentences of audiobook after listening to it twice and complain that you stuck on what was fifth. But maybe it’s not? Idk how to check)
I often read things where I see start with “introduction” (and it’s not some sort of meaningful introduction like in Thinking Physics) and end with “summary”, and both look totally useless. Remarkably, I can’t remember such thing anywhere on lesswrong. But I don’t understand, is it just useless water, is it a question of general level of intelligence, or am I missing some useful piece of cognitive tech?
If there is indeed some useful piece, how to check do I already have it or don’t?
Just a guess:
Introduction is useful to make a quick decision whether you want to read this article or not.
Summary is useful to review the key point, and increase the chance that you will remember them.
From the perspective of “how much I enjoy reading at the moment”, they are useless; possibly harmful.
Then probably I was wrong to omit that I have seen summary in Rust official guide. Which made me doubt it’s useless.
Though I also now suspect that I have much better memory than most people. (I mean, I always thought that it’s normal to remember near verbatim first few sentences of audiobook after listening to it twice and complain that you stuck on what was fifth. But maybe it’s not? Idk how to check)