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I've long thought this must be the case. On a regular basis, I fish at a lake in a town 15 minutes from my home, and do not know how to get there without GPS or a friend in the car.

Without GPS, I can navigate to places several hours from where I live currently, that I would go frequently in high school, before I had a smart phone or standalone GPS. I kept a printed set of MapQuest directions to popular destinations under my passenger seat in those days.

I recently purchased a bare bones GPS for my motorcycle [0] that only displays the direction of the next turn, how far away it is, and roughly how far along the trip I am. I've found that after going to a destination once or twice with that method, it's much more committed to memory.

[0] https://global.beeline.co/

The most productive workday I've ever had was when I met with my company's IT Helpdesk, and chose to work the rest of my day at an empty desk that was available. All the background noise acted as great white noise for me, and I could focus without distraction. As an ADHD'er, although I've gotten accustomed to it in the last year and change, my productivity takes a serious hit working remotely. I'm the only developer on my team in my office, the rest are on the other side of the country, but the benefit of going into the office for me is to have a productive workspace, less so than a collaborative one. I think my need is kinda niche though, and doesn't reflect most people's feelings about working from home.

I am so happy to see mention of Senet anywhere - I have been addicted since I saw it featured on an episode of Lost back in highschool. About a decade ago, I found a Windows version that supported online play, that I played heavily with my then long distance girlfriend. I introduced the game to my family, and my mom even sewed together a fabric board for playing during flights. We play as a family any time I visit. A few weeks ago, I started writing up a text based version of it in Java, but put it on hold for the moment.

It doesn't actually appear to contain itself though, unless i overlooked it. Maybe rightly so, since it would need to be a list of lists for inclusion, not a list of lists of lists.

For me, its more that hearing any song for a few chord changes conjures up other songs in either the same key or with the same chord progression, independent of key.

I remember noticing in highschool that hitting a few different corrugated plastic gutter pipes in my backyard would allow playing the bass line to Crazy Train...in principle, i immediately recognize the notes to different beeps and alarms in daily life and think about it unconsciously.

Is what you describe the basis of Human Endogenous Retroviruses?

Tangentially related, but if you're an Emacs user, you can check out a package called GNU Hyperbole [0], with a component known as the Koutliner that has apparently been inspired by the Augment system. If you review the manual [1] under the Koutliner chapter, you'll find the quip below, apparently on importing files created through Augment, however one would do that.

"Files exported from the Augment system as text often have alphanumeric statement identifiers on the right side. You can import such files while maintaining their outline structure. Use {M-x kimport:aug-post-outline RET} and you will be prompted for the Augment buffer or file to import and the koutline to create."

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/ [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/man/hyperbole.pdf

I do this all the time when meeting new people. my memory for facial recognition is much better than an unaided association to a name alone, so shortly after meeting a new person, I try to mention some aspect of their appearance in a sentence. e.g. "Hey Steve - you've got a cool hairstyle."

It can come off weird to some people, but their name would be forgotten in seconds otherwise, so I've decided it's a worthwhile method.

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