I was poking around the sample chapters of the O’Reilly book Mind Performance Hacks. It contains tips about memory, learning behaviors, mental math and how to tune your brain for optimal performance, like this:
A well-timed sugary drink, 30 minutes to an hour before you want to remember or take notice of something particularly closely, should improve how well you remember it.
There’s even a Mind Performance Hacks wiki that provides a format for fans to discuss and expand on the hacks. One of the memory hacks in the wiki offers a tip for overcoming that “tip of the tongue†problem – when you can’t recall something that should be readily accessible. This hack suggest that you can use Google to help you out:
This hack is like googling your memory, which of course is a useful technique to know. By way of analogy, this morning I briefly forgot the name of an author, but I knew the name of his most recent book (My Lucky Star) and that he is often compared to P.G. Wodehouse. I typed "my-lucky-star wodehouse" into Google, which is the closest thing we have to a global brain. Up came a page with the author's name in the title bar: Joe Keenan. In effect, I was priming Google.
This technique is widely used by those of us who have relegated our short term memory to the Internet and "sent" folders.
In that vein, you’ll be happy to know that the O’Reilly site has a section where you can search for code samples across all the O’Reilly books. According to the site, the O’Reilly Code Search “currently contains over 123,000 individual examples, composed of 2.6 million lines of code — all edited and ready to use.â€
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