Important Things Need a Place to Live

I don’t rely on memory for important things.

Not because memory is bad.

Because it is unreliable by nature.

It shows up when it wants to, not when it is needed.

Important things rarely arrive at convenient moments. They surface mid-task, during interruptions, or when there is no space to stop and deal with them. By the time there is, they have already moved on.

If something only exists in my head, it is temporary by default. That does not make it unimportant. It just means it does not have anywhere to land.

That is why anything that matters lives outside my head. Written down, scheduled, or built into something that holds. Not as a productivity trick, but as a way to stop carrying it.

When things have a place to live, they do not depend on remembering at the right time. They are handled, whether I am thinking about them or not.