mrock

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by mrock 5mo ago
For most of ecom you lose money acquiring a customer, and can only hope to break even by emailing them and going for repeat purchases. A few ecom folks manage to acquire customers without losing money. Typically it's via a "welcom
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by mrock 3y ago
Similar bilingual parent here. "C'est pas socier" and "Numberblocks" are excellent.
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by mrock 5y ago
It's basically impossible to run out of space. You can always go on a hike someplace to get another palace or journey. You can also reuse palaces in different contexts or weathers. For example, imagine it's all underwater, or i
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by mrock 5y ago
Getting started phase: was 15 min a day. Over-hyped phase: for some memory "projects" maybe 30 min a day. Now: I just use memory tricks all day long without really training. However every day, for the last 30 min of work I try to
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by mrock 5y ago
That's awesome. Did it change your relationship with or experience of birds?
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by mrock 5y ago
>the latter is for putting impractical information You can also input practical information ;)
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by mrock 5y ago
If you want to learn more about indigenous memory techniques read: "Memory Craft" by Dr. Lynne Kelly and "Sand Talk" by one of the authors of the experiment in question.
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by mrock 5y ago
> Do you ever "refactor" you maps to show updated understanding? Or do you find that this happens naturally? Yes. I often add on things. So let's say I read a book and years later I realize that the author omitted someth
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by mrock 5y ago
In the renascence there was a standardized system of memorized hand symbols to recall music. For guitar you can memorize fingerings by creating a person action object system in a way that tells you the fingering, the string and the fret nu
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by mrock 5y ago
Cool idea. I'd love to check it out just to see how your concept works.
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by mrock 5y ago
What is "this" that you're referring to?
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by mrock 5y ago
I started by working through: "How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week: 50 Proven Ways to Enhance Your Memory Skills" by Dominic O'Brien. It's got 50 short doable activities. That's a great way to start. A
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by mrock 5y ago
Great idea. I do this in a notebook. Left page: a list of items to recall, right page: a quick sketch of the palace. Rooms are simple squares. If I can't go back to the palace, then I paste in some printed photos.
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by mrock 5y ago
I used to try to do that. Now I keep a list of potential palaces and do everything just-in-time. Preparing a memory palace is just yet another skill. At first it seems like a big "job" to do. Later, it's like nothing, you flo
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by mrock 5y ago
> So, for the sake of etymology I guess it would not be visualise but factualize or some other word. In terms of the process, it's like imagining something using all of your senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, balance. You want to
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by mrock 5y ago
Yes. There have been many follow up interviews with these researchers. It's an early "is this interesting" proof-of-concept study. But, they are getting funding for a study which should generate more reliable data.
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by mrock 5y ago
Dr. Lynne Kelley the author of The Memory Code and Memory Craft has it. She uses memory palaces. With aphantasia you still have a hippocampus so thinking about the concept of space to encode info works just the same. :)
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by mrock 5y ago
> do you have one palace per book? Yes. Some people chain together small locations that in aggregate serve as a large palace > Many bullet points per location? At first I used the "roman room method" which put 10 items per
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by mrock 5y ago
Several memory champions have aphantasia
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by mrock 5y ago
I've tried both approaches. Some palaces are one topic only. Others have been reused >5 times. With the reused palaces, with intention you can sequential recall just that topic. It's the same as having a party at your house.
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by mrock 5y ago
I've trained my memory over the last ~5 years. I became fascinated with oral cultures. How could they transmit enough knowledge to survive and basically confer PhD level knowledge of survival without books? How could they remember i
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by mrock 5y ago
This looks great. It seems like there are issues with sign up. There is no sign-up link on the home page. I found it via guest mode --> sign up. After clicking sign up,... there is no form. I'm using firefox. HTH!
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by mrock 8y ago
Would you mind linking to the page where we can find that reference? I couldn't find it in Ch14 or by searching. Thank you!