Why You Forget What You Walked Into the Kitchen For
You walk into the kitchen. You forget why. It happens at every age, to every kind of brain. There's a famous explanation — something about doorways slicing your memory in two. The strange part? Recent research keeps finding the doorway alone doesn't really do it. Something else does. And that something else turns out to be quietly useful for anyone who sits down to write at the end of a long day.
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The Strange Small Thing Everyone DoesI have been thinking about this for a few days now. You walk into the kitchen. You stand there. You know you came in for something — you can feel the shape of - 2
The Doorway Might Not Be the DoorwayBack in the early 2000s, the original doorway experiment looked simple and clean. Researchers built a small virtual environment — a series of rooms with tabl - 3
What Actually Slices a Memory in TwoA small team of researchers in the Netherlands and Sweden ran an experiment last year that I keep coming back to. They put people in a virtual reality headse - 4
Why This Matters for WritingPicture a 38-year-old project manager at the end of a long day. She has been switching between a budget spreadsheet, three Slack threads, and a difficult conver
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