Question
What is weekly reflection?
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A weekly review catches anything your daily capture missed — it is the redundancy layer that keeps your entire epistemic system trustworthy.
Weekly reflection is a concept in personal epistemology: A weekly review catches anything your daily capture missed — it is the redundancy layer that keeps your entire epistemic system trustworthy.
Example: You capture thoughts all week — voice memos in the car, quick notes between meetings, ideas jotted at 11pm. On Sunday morning, you sit down for 45 minutes and discover: a half-formed project idea that never got a next action, a commitment you made on Tuesday that slipped out of your task list, and three notes that are actually about the same problem from different angles. Without the review, those items rot. With it, nothing falls through.
This concept is part of Phase 3 (Capture Systems) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for capture systems.
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