To complete your suggested exercise, I used to use the Tower of Babel a fair amount, which is ironic given how that story ends... yet it worked effectively as an image for web for quite a few years.
A much longer standing metaphor I've used is the idea of the "rhizome," an acentric/decentralized network. No one's memory is entirely in their own mind and it has no center.
One way was just graphically on my site, which is still around on some pages. It is a not very well thought out way of using Bruegel to draw a connection between using Memory Palaces for language learning.
The other way I've used it is as a metaphor of what not to do in terms of avoiding ghosting or having unclear journeys/journeys that are memorized rather than based on memory, etc. It can lead to Babel that ends projects pretty quickly.
Sorry for putting this here, but I couldn’t find a working email for you. I’m a fan of your podcast; though I don’t have interest in memory competitions, I use memory techniques for a wide range of tasks in my daily life. I wondered if you might think about having speed cubers (Rubik’s cube) on. While everyone is amazed by their solve times, most people don’t realize that at the competition level, they’re allowed a full minute to inspect the cube. I assume at that point they’re memorizing the sequences they’ll need, and it might be interesting to hear their techniques. The thought occurred to me after chatting with Sydney Weaver (www.sirwaffle.com), who’s a nine-time speed cubing champion and does cube education; she might be a good interviewee.
Thoroughly enjoyed this. The tragedy of our age is reading progress bars in e-book readers and page counts in books are the most read elements. We've forgotten how to let a good book carry us away to distant places.
Excellent and compelling as always.
To complete your suggested exercise, I used to use the Tower of Babel a fair amount, which is ironic given how that story ends... yet it worked effectively as an image for web for quite a few years.
A much longer standing metaphor I've used is the idea of the "rhizome," an acentric/decentralized network. No one's memory is entirely in their own mind and it has no center.
Thanks Anthony! Oh really? Interesting, would love to hear more about how you used the Tower of Babel, do you have a video on that already?
One way was just graphically on my site, which is still around on some pages. It is a not very well thought out way of using Bruegel to draw a connection between using Memory Palaces for language learning.
The other way I've used it is as a metaphor of what not to do in terms of avoiding ghosting or having unclear journeys/journeys that are memorized rather than based on memory, etc. It can lead to Babel that ends projects pretty quickly.
Sorry for putting this here, but I couldn’t find a working email for you. I’m a fan of your podcast; though I don’t have interest in memory competitions, I use memory techniques for a wide range of tasks in my daily life. I wondered if you might think about having speed cubers (Rubik’s cube) on. While everyone is amazed by their solve times, most people don’t realize that at the competition level, they’re allowed a full minute to inspect the cube. I assume at that point they’re memorizing the sequences they’ll need, and it might be interesting to hear their techniques. The thought occurred to me after chatting with Sydney Weaver (www.sirwaffle.com), who’s a nine-time speed cubing champion and does cube education; she might be a good interviewee.
Thoroughly enjoyed this. The tragedy of our age is reading progress bars in e-book readers and page counts in books are the most read elements. We've forgotten how to let a good book carry us away to distant places.
Thank you so much for writing this ♥️