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I agree with this, fwiw, and do this too. Interrupting is often also a tactic for keeping me engaged, given the ADHD. My advice in the above comment is meant for tangential interruptions rather than clarifying interruptions.

My brain is a stack, and most people are queues, so if I don’t write it down, I have already forgotten it; but that’s only really important for interruptions that lead to tangents.

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I'm skeptical that most people's short-term memory is queue-like. More likely that they are better at remembering earlier stack entries, or that they are simply less neurotic when forgetting about them.

That hasn’t been my experience. Most people around me seem to have mental checklists, and new things get added to the bottom of those checklists, not the top.

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