February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
9h 3m
English
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How This Book Is Organized
The book is divided into several chapters, organized by subject:
- Chapter 1
This chapter examines ways to improve your ability to remember information ranging from the periodic table of elements to phone numbers, maps, and spatial locations—as well as how not to leave your keys and your cell phone at home.
- Chapter 2
It has been remarked that we live not in an information economy but in an attention economy. If you have a broadband Internet connection, for example, you have access to more information than you could ever use, but your attention is comparatively scarce. This chapter contains hacks to minimize the demands on your attention by maximizing your ability to process this deluge of information.
- [Hack #19]
Creative thought means the generation of new ideas, from making the space shuttle safe to writing a poem for your kid's birthday. This chapter contains some useful techniques for almost any creative challenge you might encounter.
- Chapter 4
This chapter examines basic hacks to do mental math, including the four-banger operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), how to check your math, how to count to large numbers on your fingers, and some practical applications, such as calculating the day of the week for any day on the calendar.
- Chapter 5
Making decisions with limited data is a problem that everyone faces. The hacks in this chapter will help you separate high-priority from low-priority issues and decide how to take action on those priorities. ...
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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.