[Warbaryan]

Once while reading a post on Sustained Action I came across a person who in trying to prove to himself if recapitulating worked, obsessively recaped everything he could think of, including name brands and logos. He came to the conclusion that it was ineffective

He was not intending to recapitulate. He was intending to prove something.

...was it worth it?... Did he earn a medal? "Scene points"?

Recapitulation requires the gut knowledge of "why am I doing this" and it's not for people with a short attention span. Just like most things on the warrior's way. I think warrior's way itself is more important than any separate technique or method you can name, and you can't take "recapitulation" out of it and think of it as a particle of the ordinary social world and "prove" if it "works".

Works for what?

I think it works very well for the purpose it was intended to work for.

The knave must have been seeking for something else.