Show Your Work, Part 3

“”The cat sat on a mat” is not a story. “The cat sat on the dog’s mat” is a story.”

— John le Carré

Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon

One of the advantage of other people is what is known as transactive memory. Presented by Daniel Wegner, the theory of transactive memory states (in a very basic way) that members of groups, over time becomes memory resources for certain kinds of information. For example, you may be the person everyone in your family asks questions about computers. This allow...