@riley @recursive @aarbrk it's also made me good at (sometimes) leaving a good trail of breadcrumbs for next time I or anyone else have to solve a particular problem again. Because I know I won't remember all of it but I can usually have an inkling that I've seen something similar before (yay, pattern recognition) and that's enough

@riley @recursive @aarbrk it's true! My main coping strategy for having an inability to remember large volumes of information has been to seek understanding of the core principles of the thing and thinking them through to the logical conclusions as needed. It's made me very good at understanding how things work and troubleshooting them when they don't