In recent years I’ve been rebuilding my memory. I’m determined to master raw, blatant, repetitive memorization — which is the very thing I was told when I was young to not do as a part of learning. You know, because “you can always look it up,” right? And now we have AI, so we’re good. Big mistake. As always, it’s all a lie. Memorize daily. Anki is a great little algorithm to help train your brain.

Jim Grisanzio at OCYatra 2022. Six city tour of India: Chennai, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad. Here I’m talking about Anki and the book Make it Stick as two excellent learning aids you’ll never get in school. Photo by AIOUG.