Reading
On books, reading, and writers.
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The Major System: A mnemonic technique to remember 10,000 random numbers, but you’ll still forget where left your car keys
Anyone with sufficient motivation can remember almost anything. There is an ancient technique to remember hundreds of random numbers in a short amount of time…
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Niven’s Laws: Really just aphorisms, but good ones
There are several laws, or maybe aphorisms, that science fiction writer Larry Niven has come up with. Wikipedia has a good list, and here are…
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Resist Summary
This is from Simon Sarris’ blog, The Map is Mostly Water: It is an interesting feature of stories and fiction that they resist summary. You…
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Storms of Steel
This is a World War I memoir by German soldier Ernst Jünger. It describes his experiences fighting in one battle after the next while seeing…
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