Rovine(QOTO) @Rovine@social.cleverlibre.org

@Absinthe Yeah exactly. Although similar to flashcards, making your own cheatsheet is still very beneficial. The act of making your own note, be it flashcard or cheatsheet, is an important ingredient of learning difficult things along with practice.

This is the DF menu I was talking about and it looks like it could fit on a sticky :D

@johnlitt York is a beautiful heritage city. Lots of open mic events if you're into that. The old architecture alone is worth the visit.

@johnlitt I'm currently on a working holiday in UK being an unemployed bum. Doing a course in game dev and programming. Want to work towards front end dev and game dev.

@Dee
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@MOTT
If you say that as a meme I'd laugh. No different from mngrif's meme.
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@Absinthe I started Unity module of my course today, with learning the editor's UI being my current priority.

Something like that, where I'm learning a tool, requires me to actually use the tool to learn about it. That means looking at a flashcard of, say, a hotkey shortcut to zoom in scene window, doesn't mean much when I pull out the mobile flashcard in the toilet, or queuing up in Greggs. I gotta actually be there at my laptop and use the zoom tool.

I remembered that the way I learned to play Dwarf Fortress was pretty much playing it alongside the wiki. DF menu itself is also structured like a cheatsheet of hotkeys.

I think scenarios where you're learning a tool, flashcards won't contribute as much, but scenarios where you're learning knowledge are where flashcards shine.

@libreture Heck I'm up for slow living as well.

Breakfast thought: sometimes cheatsheets are better than flashcards.

@hkz@mastodon.technology
I experimented with many speed reading techniques myself and I agree they are all complete bogus. Comprehension actually gives the illusion of speed instead.

One with a background in entrepreneurship can go through 4 Hour Work Week pretty quick, but the same person without classical literature experience will need a whole month to finish something by James Joyce.

On the other hand with the viable methods listed in the article, visual reading is an interesting one - if I can imagine a scene from a book in my head, that section goes by pretty quickly, and at the same time I retain a lot because I turned them into movie scenes in my head.

In the end of the day speed shouldn't be a judgement factor for reading. Comprehension is individual. Everyone will approach different books at different speeds.

Idea from my friend: microSD-to-SATA connector.

@david
It's a constant battle for me rather than a condition with a one-off cure, but the journey of recovery, relapse and recover again does kind of make life interesting.