collectors fallacy

Human behavior as automatons

Because ‘to know about something’ isn’t the same as ‘knowing something’ — Christian, The Collector’s Fallacy

collectors fallacy: The tendency to gather useful stuff, and feel good about it. It’s a fallacy (the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning) because it gives the mistaken idea of an increase in knowledge and understanding

• It makes us feel good → addictive
• collecting is not learning
• understanding → how does this piece of information relate to other information in my graph → linking
• truly understanding something means you can explain it to others who are not proficient in that field

See also

• How to take progressively less stupid Notes
• How to create book notes in logseq
• note taking workflow 2022-01
• spaced repetition as a productivity tool
• Collecting information that is not processed and incorporated feels good

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reference:

• The Collector’s Fallacy
• The Collector’s Fallacy: Why We Gather Things We Don’t Need | Observer