The Struggle Of Sharing
The release ratio is something I read about almost two years ago, and it has stuck in my mind ever since. It's a concept written about by Lawrance Yeo in his blog "More to That" that simply states that the release ratio of the stuff in your brain is the knowledge you share divided by the knowledge you consume. I always imagined that our minds are like a balloon: when we read a book, see a video, or listen to a podcast, we gradually fill this balloon with the content we preserve, and we keep doing that until we can not learn anymore. So it pops and scatters all the information we learned into the void, just to end up where we started, with nothing. That article put a name to this idea I have and showed how to solve this problem: simply increase the release ratio of our mind. Which means when you consume something new and not sharing what you learn with others or creating something meaningful with it results in zero added value. Because of that, the equation goes like this:...