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@johntrain awesome thanks

what's the deal with NAS registration, seems there's space but it seems registration is still closed

@lucifargundam neither is english what is your point

@GLFC @sim ironically, or unsurprisingly, this takes more work than cobbling together flashcards

@GLFC @sim @sim Anki/Memory Palaces are ancillaries for recall, the real pay dirt is in thrashing out how your mind wants to structure the information

if the game's information is chronically unreliable maybe you shouldn't play

the dubbing of anime into english has been a disaster for the human race

@sim Anki is a lot less investment up front though

@sim check out my post on Anki in the thread, also MemoryCraft by Lynn Kelly is the best intro into memory palaces I've ever read and I've checked out a few

@sim @amerika also Anki is good for remembering stuff, and if you are good at making the right cards (I'm not yet) it could really supercharge your recall and thus the insight you develop

http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html

@sim
In my experience, read the older books whenever you can and follow your interests. Avoid contemporary works unless they're well written popular accounts/fun podcasts. You're better off reading what Caesar actually wrote than some dry academic text.

Try to get a mix of philosophy, history and fiction, including from the modern age. what makes the classics so fascinating is that you can trace their influence throughout history of thought and action. this means you will always have a couple of threads/names to hook pieces of information to.

Emerson and Montaigne are great essayists that carry a sense of scope with them; you can read one of their works in half an or or so and be done with it, but their allusions and stories will draw you on to read more about Alexander the Great, Napoleon or Plato.

Never tried to systemise it but if I did the Trivium would be a central pillar:

https://www.pccs.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/LostToolsOfLearning-DorothySayers.pdf

@realcaseyrollins dw you're forgiven