Category Archives: Nature

Weeknote for 6/9/2024

Posted on June 18, 2024 by Andy

Learning 🤓 I filled in my linguistics knowledge with Essentials of Linguistics and “Introduction to Lexicography for FieldWorks Language Explorer.” These helped me contemplate the features of my mnemonic language. Nature 🙂 I set up a tentative sequence for rotating … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 5/26/2024

Posted on June 12, 2024 by Andy

Learning 🤯 I had the epiphany that my memory system should be a language. Reading about the grammar of American Sign Language in the Gallaudet dictionary made me realize that memory techniques sort of have a grammar too as well … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 5/19/2024

Posted on May 30, 2024 by Andy

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

Posted on May 27, 2024 by Andy

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

Posted on May 20, 2024 by Andy

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

Posted on April 28, 2024 by Andy

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

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Andy

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

Posted on March 23, 2024 by Andy

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

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Andy

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

Posted on March 2, 2024 by Andy

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 →