Forgetting is a Gift: How to Change the Past and Burn Your To-Do List

In a world where technology excels at preserving every detail, what if forgetting is your greatest asset?

Technology gets better at remembering; we, thankfully, get better at forgetting. And that forgetting? It’s what makes us human. Erase too much of it, and you erase yourself.

This obsession with permanence probably started with cave paintings. Lots of wiggle room for interpretation there – is it a myth about zebras, a map to the watering hole, or both? La…