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title: Curse of Knowledge
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# Curse of Knowledge
The **curse of knowledge** is a cognitive bias
which impairs the ability of one with specialized knowledge
to consider the perspective of one without it.
## See Also
* [false consensus effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect)
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title: "Drinking One's Own Kool-Aid"
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# Drinking One's Own Kool-Aid
> "Don't drink your own Kool-Aid"
**Drinking one's own Kool-Aid** is a form of systemic self-delusion
whereby an individual convinces themself
Contrast with [drinking _the_ Kool-Aid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid)
which generally connotates acceptance
of erroneous worldviews spread by _others_.
## See Also
* [[einstellung-effect]]
* [apophenia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia)
* [confirmation bias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias)
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title: _Einstellung_ Effect
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# _Einstellung_ Effect
The [_Einstellung_ effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstellung_effect)
is the tendency to use a familiar tool to solve a new problem
even when another tool may be superior for the purpose.
> \[It\]is the negative effect of previous experience when solving new problems.
> When all you've got is a hammer,
> everything looks like a nail.
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id: 2026-04-15T19:28:06-04:00
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title: 2026-04-15 19:28:06
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- destiny/permanent
- status/draft
- type/periodic/timestamped
daily: "[[2026-04-15]]"
date-created: 2026-04-15T19:28:06-04:00
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monthly: "[[2026-04]]"
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# 2026-04-15 19:28:06
## "Obsidian for Learning Part II: Process"
["Obsidian for Learning Part II: Process" - No Boilerplate](https://youtu.be/Tyw6quANpiY)
No Boilerplate first got me into [[obsidian]]
so to see them endorse such strange patterns without qualification is frustrating.
I suspect that Tris is a victim of [[drinking-ones-own-kool-aid]].
***
Clearly we have different priorities for our vaults,
but I tend to think mine are more consistent.
***
I couldn't trade git version control
for the convenience of Obsidian Sync on mobile.
The timeline of my understanding
is just as important as the result.
***
Tris has repeated ~~somewhere~~
a piece of advice for Obsidian [[personal-knowledge-management]]
that I think ought to be nonnegotiable.
> You get one vault. Figure it out.
***
PKM, as I understand it, is in service of [[synthesis]],
that if you have access to your knowledge
without the effort and problems of recall,
your processing power can be spent making connections.
***
The problem with titled notes
is that titles are a barrier to writing
that serve no purpose.
> [!quote] [Steph Ango "Evergreen notes turn ideas into objects that you can manipulate"](https://stephango.com/evergreen-notes)
> * A company is a superorganism
> * All input is error
> * Calmness is a superpower
> * Concise explanations accelerate progress
> * Cross the chasm
> * Everything is a remix
> * Writing is telepathy
> * You have no obligation to your former self
> * etc
These are not summaries,
this is quippy bullshit.
If it seems like this would be a good way to organize ideas
you are vastly underestimating the number of ideas you have.
At scale you won't be able to distinguish between
"Concise explanations accelerate progress"
and "Accelerating progress explanations",
and if titles-as-filenames doesn't aid organization
you might as well use timestamps, which do.
***
Still I think the best way to start Obsidian
is to install it with no expectations or introduction
then write everything in unique notes with the core plugin.
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id: 2026-04-15T19:58:19-04:00
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title: 2026-04-15 19:58:19
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dg-publish: true
date-created: 2026-04-15T19:58:19-04:00
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monthly: "[[2026-04]]"
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# 2026-04-15 19:58:19
## Gell-Man Amnesia Effect
The [Gell-Mann amnesia effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#%22Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect%22)
may explain my tendency to rave about literature on other disciplines.
I am a bitter detractor of Mike Holt,
(who may be the only thing approaching a published researcher in our shared fields[^1])
but I'm quick to ignore typos and other presentation issues
which may be indicative of low rigor
in books and articles for adjacent fields.
[^1]: Those being the electrical trade (as practiced by electricians)
and electrical estimating.
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id: 2026-04-15T22:03:02-04:00
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title: 2026-04-15 22:03:02
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dg-publish: true
date-created: 2026-04-15T22:03:02-04:00
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# 2026-04-15 22:03:02
I used to think that with a good enough explanation
people could be disabused of their flawed understandings.
Increasingly I feel that well reasoned logic
may be the smallest part of why opinions change,
that it's much more a case of right place, right time.
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> where the question is about an end user's attempted solution (X)
> rather than the root problem itself (Y).
The XY problem is an example of the [[einstellung-effect]].
> [!quote] [_How To Ask Questions The Smart Way_ --- Eric Steven Raymond](http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html)
> > [!quote] ["Questions Not To Ask"](http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#classic)
> > **Q:** How can I use X to do Y?
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> > but I can't get FooDraw's color picker to take a hexadecimal RGB value.
> >
> > The second version of the question is smart.
> > It allows an answer that suggests a tool better suited to the task.
> > It allows an answer that suggests a tool better suited to the task.