Meaning and Magic

Tag: memory

  • Brain burning

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    Here’s a thought experiment: If you could burn ten claims about the nature of the world into everyone’s brain, so that they truly grokked them, which ones would you choose?   My answers, stolen from all over the place, in rough order of perceived importance: Reality is not vague. The past is sunk. There is no failure,…

  • More about how I’ve been memorizing quotations

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    As I already mentioned, I’ve been working on memorizing some of my favorite quotations. One of the main motivations for this project was to play around with spaced repetition software. I’d heard of SuperMemo a while ago, probably from the Wired article, and I was definitely intrigued, really glad that Peter Wozniak had done all…

  • OS X Service for memorizing verbatim text

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    First_Letters.workflow.zip Download this file Lately I’ve been somewhat into memorizing some of my favorite quotations from books. The most effective method I’ve found for doing so has been converting each word of whatever text I’m trying to memorize to just the first letter, and trying to reconstruct the passage from that. Here’s the theory behind…