Creation ( not to be confused with creating life ) but trying to create something beautiful that took time and effort and care is a virtue. Accumulation of knowledge to that end is a virtue too.
Note that knowledge being seeked must be to that end, even if remotely.
Pointlessly exploring branches that serves as no means to creation is a sin, a betrayal to self. For example, if I try to memorise digits of pi, that’s a sin.
Creation with no or shallow understanding is a sin for it is impossble to create something truly beautiful ( for you would simly not be able to see any beauty in it ) without understanding.
This in fact is the highest of virtues — I would call them primary virtues.
A state of knowledge is your mental state — the ideas and thoughts, your own interpretation and understanding of something go to waste by NOT writing it down in a persistent and later searcheable manner. Accumulating knowledge only to forget it and relearn it all from scratch is a betrayal to your purpose; you’ll keep on learning and forgetting the same things over and over again.
Letting knowledge accumulated after much hard work go to waste by forgetting is a sin.
It’s also always good to write everything — what you did for statistics and logging purposes which is pretty crude how I worded it but honor the archivist.
Rules
- always write what you learn daily, as you relearn build on top and rewrite and simplify what you wrote earlier. Starting from 0 again for no reason other than previous knowledge not surviving is a sin.
This note I should split into two