Happy Friday everybody! My name is Jonathan Cottrell, you're listening to another Friday Refill episode of Developer Tea. It's been a couple of weeks since we've done one of these. And I can't really blame anything other than myself. We've had a little bit of a chaotic couple of weeks, but we're back with another Friday Refill episode. The whole point of these Friday Refill episodes is to send you into your weekend with some energizing food for thought. So that you don't feel run down when you wake up on a Saturday and just kind of lay around trying to recover. That you rest with energy. That seems like an oxymoron a little bit, doesn't it? But that you rest with energy. That you rest with energy and with some kind of anticipation for the week ahead. So that's the goal of these Friday Refills. And in today's episode, I want to talk to you about the sheer fact that you have so much to remember. Even if you were to try to employ all of the best practices or ideas or mental models. Whatever it is that you find just on this podcast. You'd be trying to hold in mind something like over 900 episodes. Nearing 1,000 episodes of this show. That much information. Now, I'll let you in on a little bit of a secret here. Even I don't have all of that information in my head. There's probably a large number of these episodes that I've done. That either I have contradicted myself. Or I've totally forgotten. Or I've totally forgotten what I said. And I could probably benefit from going back and listening to some of those previous episodes. But the point that I want to make here. Is that as you progress through your career. Especially early on. You may feel like your job is to remember everything. And to, critically, remember the right thing at the right time. Now, I mentioned. Already that I probably have conflicting or contradictory episodes in this podcast. And the truth is. I think that's okay. I think it's okay to contradict yourself. Because sometimes. Two contradicting opinions. Make sense in two different contexts. If that doesn't make sense to you. Go back and listen to the last episode of the show. Where we talk about local rationale. We can contradict ourselves. And still maintain some level of consistency. In our beliefs. In our approach. But the critical thing to understand here. Is that. We have this intuitive response. To all of this information. That we're supposed to. Like a computer might. Be able to call up that information. At any given moment. And not only call it up. But to be able to apply that. Information in the correct way. To figure out. What specific mental model. Should I apply in this specific instance. Or. To try to apply an entire decision framework. To every decision that we're making. Not only is this impractical. From purely a time standpoint. But it's also. Virtually impossible. To remember all of these things. So. Your next question hopefully is. Well then. Why are we listening to this at all? Why are we talking about? Why do we read the books that we read? Why do we study. These ideas to begin with? Here's the critical thing that I want you to take away. From today's Friday Refill episode. Your goal. In studying all of. What we present on this show. But certainly well beyond this show. Your goal in. Becoming a better engineer. And always on that pathway. That pursuit. Of improvement. And your goal is not. To memorize. But instead. To develop intuition. Your goal. Is not to memorize. But instead. To develop intuition. So what does this mean exactly? Well. Instead of memorizing every single thing that we say on the show. It's very likely. That if I were to present to you. An idea. Or a situation. If you've listened to the show long enough. You could probably guess. What I would say about that situation. That. Is developing an intuition. Rather than viewing all of these tools. As if. They are a specific tool. We should view them more like. Colors. On that lens. We should view them as. Changes that we're making to our brains. We're up to. We're upgrading our software. We're not collecting things. And putting them in our tool belt. To call up at. The perfect time. But instead. We are improving the way that we see the world. And so even though you may not remember. The exactly correct thing. In the exactly correct moment. What you can remember. Is the framework. The general idea. The space. The constraints. Some of the restraints. And restrictions. You can remember that location. Of thinking. Hopefully this makes sense to you. And if you've done study for long enough. You understand this difference. Between memorization. And intuition. Intuition is something that. You carry with you. Virtually for the rest of your life. Or the remainder of your career. Certainly. And you won't have to go back. And reference things. As much as you'll be able to say. I know where to go. To find more information. Being able to navigate. In this. Profession. Being able to navigate. Being able to understand what to do. In a given problem scenario. Is much less. About categorizing. And creating kind of an encyclopedia. Of information in your brain. And it's much more. About knowing. The general. Lay of the land. So. If you feel the pressure. If you feel the pressure to memorize things. Take a step back. And try to understand. The essence of what is being communicated. Try to. Reword. Everything that you're reading or listening to. In your own words. Develop an intuition for it. That applies to an actual scenario. In your life. Rather than. Making this a script. That you try to. Find a place for in your brain. Instead. Try to relate. To what you're hearing. Try to find a place for it. In your context. And in your world. This is going to help you develop intuition. But it's also going to help you understand. How to remember. Without memorizing. You're not really. Remembering the specifics. But instead. You're developing. Kind of guardrails of thinking. If I had one goal. For the listeners of this show. It wouldn't be. That you would remember everything I say. It would be. That you think. In a new way. And then. Every time you listen to. An episode of this show. You're thinking. You're decision making. Your relation to the people around you. And your relation to the world. And your. Place in it. Improves. Thanks so much for listening to today's episode of Developer Tea. I hope. That you will focus. On your. Intuition building. Over this upcoming week. Thank you again. For listening to. Hopefully. More than just this episode. Of course. We release three episodes a week. Normally at least. And. The best way to make sure you don't miss out on future episodes. Is to subscribe. Whatever podcasting app you're currently using. If you enjoy. This episode. You might enjoy. Talking in our. Community. Our discord community. Head over to developertea.com. Slash. Discord. To join that. Today. We never plan. On monetizing that community. We're not trying to sell you anything there. It is just a place. For driven developers. Like you. To come. And connect. Thanks so much for listening. And until next time. Enjoy your tea. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.