February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
9h 3m
English
Content preview from Mind Performance HacksBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Acknowledgments
First, thanks to the authors of Mind Hacks, Tom Stafford and Matt Webb, for laying the road and showing the way, and to all of those mnemonists and mental mathematicians out there, ditto.
Next, a hearty thanks to all of the contributors to this book. Man, you guys work hard! Particular thanks to Richard Brzustowicz, lead technical reviewer, and the Marks—Mark Purtill and Mark Schnitzius—who contributed many of the math hacks and tech reviewed the others.
The Mentat Wiki contributors must be mentioned. Thanks, folks, for all of your hard work. You were an inspiration. I would especially like to thank the mysterious StylusEpix for his contribution of the basis for "Count to a Million on Your Fingers" [Hack #40]. He has no known email address and never answered the Wiki messages I left, but maybe he'll see this.
Thanks to Merlin Mann of 43 Folders and 5ives for reviewing the Mentat Wiki, pointing O'Reilly in my direction, and making me laugh so damn hard. Thanks also to Lion Kimbro for encouraging me to create the Mentat Wiki in the first place.
Thanks to my friends for putting up with my neglect while I was writing this book, and especially my board game group, Seattle Cosmic, for putting up with my many absences and foisting unfinished material on them at unforeseen moments. Thanks especially to John Braley for a chess example for the book, and for reminding me to keep my nose clean.
Of the O'Reilly team, thanks to Rael Dornfest and Lucas Carlson for the software I used ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.