messy notes — 4 Feb ’26

saving information for later sucks

I guess I shouldn’t rely on save-for-later / read-it-later tools because they’re mostly just a form of self-deception. The data suggests that people rarely revisit these things. That’s why you are supposed to either abandon ideas at the moment of creation or execute them immediately.

Any postponed exploration requires reconstructing context, which is cognitively expensive. Immediate capture takes only a few minutes at most.

Don’t make your online environment messy because of irrational FOMO.

Ruthlessly delete unimportant things you are “saving for later”

will this book or essay make you happier? how much time are you ready to allocate right now or tommorow?