Product: Trello URL: https://trello.com/ Company: Fog Creek Software Cost: Free Use: Collaborative Project Management Summary: Trello is a simple web service for collaboration and project management. Tasks are arranged in lists.…
What’s the capacity of our memories? What does it mean to have outsourced our memory to technology? In Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, Joshua Foer explores the niche competition of the USA Memory Championship, human memory, and the lost art of remembering. Reporting on the Championship, Foer becomes obsessed with what he witnesses and takes up with Ed Cooke, a Grandmaster of Memory, who tells Foer he can train him to win the Championship within a year.
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Recently, I picked up Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer. It blends scientific literature about memory with an interesting narrative, Foer's quest to compete in the USA Memory Championship. The…
In Fatherland by Robert Harris, Germany won WWII and is now locked in a cold war with the United States. The novel follows a police detective, Xavier March, as he investigates a man’s death in this alternate reality.
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