Moonwalking With Einstein {ReadingNotes}

Moonwalking with Einstein : The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer - ISBN 159420229X - Penguin 2011

Motivation

Suggested by Catherine after several discussions on memory.

Pre-reading model

List the main decisions that should be impacted by reading the book in order to estimate the Seedea:Content/Newconcepts#InformationActionRatio and facilitate rule design as suggested after finishing TheTinkerersAccomplice.

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.

Reading

• ref to history of reading
• basic concept of location
• book organised in a similar fashion
• oral history studies
  • to share with Gilbert and Joel, author of The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
• Raymond Lull encountered before (~p150)
  • for his Ars Magna and mechanical thought ideas
• Gordon Bell at Microsoft, also encountered before (p156)
• conclusion of chapter on the sense of "me" and "self" and the different Western and Eastern view (p161)
  • see also ThereIsNoSelf
• classical neuro/psycho cases
  • EM
  • Wikipedia:HM_
• memorizing numbers via e.g. Major System or Person-Action-Object system (PAO)
  • http://mnemotechnics.org/wiki/Person-Action-Object_(PAO)_System
  • similar to article read a while ago on somebody spending a day to solve very long divisions mentally
• the OK plateau (p170) seems like a classical sigmoid
• Andi Bell "You have to analyze what you're doing wrong." as a pledge for meta-cognition
  • but still important to understand when dimishing returns hit, see also Wikipedia:Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr.'s book
• tracking data (p176)
  • similar to MentalExercises

See also

• Wikipedia:Joshua Foer
• http://joshuafoer.com/moonwalking-with-einstein/
• http://joshuafoer.com/world-science-festival/
• Josh Cohen's http://mnemotechnics.org
  • http://mnemotechnics.org/video-game-memory-palace-2119.html
• World Science Festival with Joshua Foer with an actual walk
• Penguuin intro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kor0wFR72xc
• Ed Cooke and some Nifty Memory Tricks, 2008
• http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/376566/march-07-2011/joshua-foer
• Memory Sports group on Yahoo!
• http://quiz.thefullwiki.org/ on the book itself, key topics and the authors
• reviews
  • Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer – Book Review by Josh Cohen, Mnemotechnics.org 2011
  • ‘Moonwalking With Einstein,’ by Joshua Foer - Book Review by Michiko Kakutani, NYTimes.com 2011
• consider a set of rules
  • inspired by finishing TheTinkerersAccomplice and wondering how I could apply it
• Remembering to remember: Joshua Foer at TED2012, TED Blog March 2012

Overall remarks and questions

• overall see my related efforts
  • completly aligned with WikiCityMapping thought of months earlier (June 2011) and mentioned then Method of loci aka memory palace
    • note that it could even be automated via The Painting Fool collage (or other equivalent systems developed earlier)
  • WikiBrainMapping
  • StructuralInformationAsymmetries#ArchitectureIsomorphisms
• compare with my own habits and tools
  • wiki with dates
  • unfortunately as of now still no geolocation implemented, cf ImprovingPIM#PerDiffMetaData
  • notebook with date and location
• problem of cost and more importantly hidden bias, adding connotation to other memories
• mostly techniques to visualize objects, thus mostly efficient on very concrete objects
  • basically tagging a fake logic or at least story to object at a mesoscale

Synthesis

So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.

Critics

Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.

Vocabulary

(:new_vocabulary_start:) new_word (:new_vocabulary_end:)

Post-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.

Categories

• UncategorizedBook

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