Frame Of Stack on Twitter: "I've read that mnemonic devices aid recall in the short term (for tests), but harm it in the long. "Implications of the ACT-R Learning Theory: No Magic Bullets". (Good paper overall, but actually has a lot of implied ways to do better than schools, contrary to title!)… https://t.co/EjvreVEDQV"

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full-stack monastic‏ @tasshinfogleman Jan 11

As an amateur Plato scholar, I’ll take this opportunity to state that despite claims to the contrary, I don’t think Plato is unequivocally anti-writing in his dialogue, the Phaedrus. I have pretty solid evidence to back me up: it’s a piece of writing.pic.twitter.com/XPkBMaLm6U

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full-stack monastic‏ @tasshinfogleman Jan 11

One strategy people take for remembering things these days is to use Spaced Repetition Software (SRS), like Anki, Mnemosyne, or SuperMemo. SRS is also built into tools like Duolingo and Khan Academy.

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full-stack monastic‏ @tasshinfogleman Jan 11

I used to be a big fan of Anki and SRS. I used it to remember vocabulary, people's names, geography, programming languages, keyboard shortcuts... I even wrote a chapter in a book about it with @rwhe: Mindhacker (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10370455-mindhacker …).

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full-stack monastic‏ @tasshinfogleman Jan 11

These days, I have a more nuanced view. I think SRS is widely misused. I have many reasons for this, but one is that people try to use it to remember everything, even things that are irrelevant, useless, or even boring.pic.twitter.com/IVMwzkYber

Greyscale children are taking tests with ominous tubes plugged into their heads. A child with some color is looking out the window. Outside is a paradise that is in full color. Her teacher pulls her away, saying she'll be "left behind," an allusion to the No Child Left Behind Act.

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full-stack monastic‏ @tasshinfogleman Jan 11

full-stack monastic Retweeted Tiago Forte

When asked about SRS, productivity expert Tiago Forte (@fortelabs) will typically say something like “I want to remember as little as possible.” Wow!https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/700704243850747905 …

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@mwfogleman @dthorson why anki? Makes no sense to memorize notes. The point of the system is u don't have to

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full-stack monastic‏ @tasshinfogleman Jan 11

Tiago's dismissal of Anki and SRS really surprised me when I first heard him say it. His perspective is the exact opposite of what the ancients thought, as well as what SRS-abusing digital packrats think. (No judgement, I’m a reformed one.)

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full-stack monastic‏ @tasshinfogleman Jan 11

Instead of using SRS to pack your brain full of facts - and spend precious time keeping those facts, you can off-loading the things you need or want to remember into external tools like a notebook or software. This frees up your brain to connect + be creative.pic.twitter.com/nNcug7gAUX

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full-stack monastic‏ @tasshinfogleman Jan 11

Tiago’s approach is called Personal Knowledge Management. PKM is a brilliant foundation for any knowledge worker and really anyone who engages with information and the internet. If that’s you, go learn Tiago’s ideas, stat.

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full-stack monastic‏ @tasshinfogleman Jan 11

In his famous polemic "Tagging is Broken," later republished on the Evernote blog as "Evernote and the Brain: Designing Creativity Workflows," (https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2015/12/11/evernote-and-the-brain-designing-creativity-workflows/ …) Tiago claims that tagging is widely misused. Why? Too much work for too little reward.

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full-stack monastic‏ @tasshinfogleman Jan 11

(Hmm… since he makes the same arguments against SRS, I could imagine him taking similar positions against ancient mnemonic tools and their modern equivalents!)

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Frame Of Stack‏ @FrameOfStack Jan 13

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I've read that mnemonic devices aid recall in the short term (for tests), but harm it in the long. "Implications of the ACT-R Learning Theory: No Magic Bullets". (Good paper overall, but actually has a lot of implied ways to do better than schools, contrary to title!)

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