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Weeknote for 5/19/2024

Learning 🤓 I took my mnemonic wanderings in new directions—poetry and movement—while continuing my experiments with narrative. I finished listening to Memory, Memorization, and Memorizers, transcriptions of lectures by Marcel Jousse introducing his groundbreaking work from the 1930s on the … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 5/12/2024

Learning 😎 I continued exploring ideas and collecting resources for my memory system. (1) I finished collecting PAO names for my number memorizing list, and the next step is collecting their associated actions, objects, and perhaps locations. (2) I experimented … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 5/5/2024

Learning 😎 I continued taking memory palace photos, choosing number names, and exploring resources for creating more mnemonic tools. I picked up a pair of symbolism dictionaries by Steven Olderr to help me think about visualizing abstract concepts. For ideas … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 4/14/2024

Learning 🙂 I decided to start my memory training by learning a Person-Action-Object list for two-digit numbers based on the Dominic System. This is a popular way of memorizing numbers that balances speed of memorizing a number against the speed … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 4/7/2024

Learning 😌 I started indexing the lists of mnemonic substitutes in my new sources. I worked from Mnemonic Techniques by Hoff and Remember It! by Dellis. Early on I tried entering the lists themselves, but that took too much time … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 3/17/2024

Learning 😎 Scott Young’s Ultralearning (TED talk) is setting the agenda for my learning project. The book is about how to learn a lot about a subject in a relatively short time, perfect for the kind of learning projects I … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 3/3/2024

Life maintenance 😌 Last week sprang some good surprises, the biggest one being that my health insurance started covering my ulcerative colitis med again. Tuesday’s surprise was that my busy doctor had an opening the next day, so I scheduled … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 2/25/2024

Life maintenance 😬 My spring housekeeping was interrupted by a clash with the medical system. I’d learned a couple of weeks earlier that my health insurance had dropped coverage of my very expensive ulcerative colitis medication. The next week, the … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 2/4/2024

Productivity 😌 I finished separating my intervals database into iteration and day databases. This week I’ll try to get through creating a Make scenario for automatically registering work sessions for my tasks in Notion. I do it manually now, and … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 1/21/2024

Productivity 😐 I started fixing some issues in the design of my Notion workspace that had been bothering me. I merged a couple of redundant database columns, which came from the way my data is cobbled together from different sources. … Continue reading

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