On Memory Palaces & Visual Computation

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I now use Are.na as a Memory Palace, separating my channels into rooms. For example, I have a channel that I call the Computation Room. It’s pretty generic and includes any type of block that relates to computation.

If I notice a pattern in the computation room I create a more specific channel in that room. I think of that more specific topic as an object within the room.

Then there are the adjacent topics that I often find even more exciting to focus on. For those, I choose a name that corresponds with the nature of a room and also its size. For example I have a channel called the Visual Computing Observatory. In my head I am imagining an actual observatory where I am looking and observing and studying a given topic.

  1. ​The Method of Loci​