S4 E17: Wait, What Was I Doing? Or, Our Working Memory SUCKS
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I think I’m getting better at the titles to these episodes, but they pretty much make this blurb harder to write because I’ve already clearly let you know what the episode is about. But seriously, Aimée forgot to press start to her washing machine, and we go on and on and on about memory, specifically how s****y our working memory is (something that is common for those with ADHD), but also how we can remember tons of other seemingly random and (mostly) useless things. And then she reminds me while talking of something that I forgot to do. And then we also forgot to end the episode so this is only part one of our conversation. Good luck to the AI transcriber.
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