Train to Busan

The Raven

Only Murders in the Building

The Patient

Total Recall – A Notion Template for Improving Memory

🔗 / Notion Template /

This spaced repetition Notion template has been my new favourite memory tool.

Essentially, it’s a flashcard deck that holds our favourite words, concepts, quotes, etc and automatically places the cards that need to be reviewed each day at the top of the deck.

Creative Reading

Interesting perspective for a reading creatively: going into new reading material with an idea of a specific question you want answered; a lens

Diversity Scores

What if you gave your life diversity scores?

I’ve been hearing more and more about the benefits of expanding the amount of diversity we have in our lives. For example, this month I learned that “the diversity of kinds of social interactions someone has is a predictor of their well-being.” 🔗 / Clearer Thinking /

I wonder what it would look like to measure our diversity score across all aspects of our life: social interactions, nutrition, fitness goals, interests, spaces we spend time, etc.

Memory Trigger Optimization

What if your flashcard deck was optimized for memory triggers over memory recall?

Level 1 strategy for creating flashcards — The Destination Method:

• Create a card for every word you want to remember.
• On the front of each card, write a concept.
• On the back of each card, write a definition.

The goal is to solidify the memory we want to retrieve.

Level 2 strategy for creating flashcards — The Journey Method:

• For each concept you want to remember, create multiple cards that will trigger your memory of it.
• On the front of each card, write a trigger.
• On the back of each card, write a concept.

The goal is to multiply the triggers for the memories we want to retrieve — when do you want remember a concept — what topics do you want to trigger your memory of a concept.

The more paths we pave to a memory, the easier it will be to retrieve that memory when we want it.

Internalizing measurements

I’ve been wanting to do a better job of internalizing measurements; for example, I want to have a general sense of what 1km is and how long it would take me to walk/run that distance; and how accurately can I guess what a centimetre/meter/foot/inch looks like.

I just learned that the Cedarvale trail is approx 2 km; I know that it takes me about 30 min to get to its end; so it must take me about. 15 minutes to comfortably walk 1km

Biggest tradeoffs

A good question to ask to get to know someone better: what’s one of the biggest tradeoffs that you’ve made in your life?

Panpsychism

🔗 / Bits of Wonder /

Philosophy and the problem of other minds.

Eternal Return

🔗 / Castles in the Sky /

Nietzsche had an idea called the eternal return which (sort of) said we were supposed to live the same lives over and over for eternity. It’s been interesting to explore as a thought experiment to measure my choices against.

Learned helplessness

🔗 / Veretasium video /

Basic definition:

when we get used to enduring something negative that we eventually become less likely to try to avoid/stop it

Experiments:

Social Diversity

🔗 / Clearer Thinking /

The diversity of kinds of social interactions someone has is a predictor of their well-being.

Podcast Questions

I'm realizing that one of the most interesting things to take away from listening to podcasts, or what questions I can ask in my own life.

Bad Good

Are you getting too good at the wrong thing? 🔗 / Nat Eliason /

Practice for the Sublime

Edmund Burke on the Sublime: similar to awe, a good way to be made to feel small; he noticed how when we’re made to feel small in some ways, we become good and large in other dimensions;

Building a practice for the sublime: routinely exposing ourselves to things that make us feel insignificant in order to minimize the importance of the negatives in our lives

UI Personified

Do I as a person have ux/ui?

Best Athletes

Dangerous Children

Interesting question: How would you raise your child if you knew that one day their turn will come to hold a rifle? 🔗 / Niv Petel /

Tell-all Docuseries

If you could watch a tell-all docuseries on one person right now who would you want to learn about?

Reinventing Birthdays

🔗 / Arman’s Substack /

If you had to celebrate yourself on some significant milestone day other than your birthday, what would that day be?

Rewind

Interesting innovation: https://www.rewind.ai/pendant

Brand Linguistics

The linguistics of brand names; watching a breakfast tv segment interviewing a spin coach of a gym called S2DIO; I think it’s such a clever use of the number 2