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Discussion on: To memorize or not to memorize?

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Carl-W

Good post!
The docs change daily! Why clutter your brain with that, right? Just look it up when you need it.

I like to keep the mind clear, however, haha it makes me sound completely incompetent when talking with other engineers because I'll always answer with generalities. Stereotypically there's this underlying competition between SW engineers where we try to sound smart all the time, and try to one up each other that our current stack is "correct" or "hey look at this Medium article, but he forgot about this and this, what a tard". I can never join that conversation because I don't keep the detailed workings in my memory.

If we are talking about concepts I try to understand them on a high level, and gradually I don't need to look things up as I use them daily.