In 2003, Quicksilver introduced me to the striking notion of "wu wei" as applied to software—effortless action, doing without doing, no decisions or cognition required; creates a feeling of speed. Can be a powerful design property! (e.g. iOS scrolling)
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Relatedly, I think checklists and playbooks access a weak form of this feeling—submission to a process, "becoming" the process. It can be really powerful to take something that normally requires decisions/will and to turn it into an "executable strategy."
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Yes, the notes thing is a prototype I made.
Spaced repetition is an area of active research for me. See e.g. notes.andymatuschak.org/z4rRX3qwSSJRsE and vicinity
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Thanks. I'm very skeptical of much of the theory in this domain; fear we're still "pre-Newtonian" in most respects. The quantitative-empirical is awfully limited on this topic.