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21 Feb 2019
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Daniel Schacter — holds since 2019-02-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Remembering the past and imagining the future are one brain process, which is why what you can imagine is bounded by what you have already lived. — tap to centre the map on it Remembering the past and imagining the future are one brain process, which is why what you can imagine is bounded by what you have already lived. Last stated 3 months ago
13 Jul 2026
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Alan Castel — holds since 2026-07-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Spaced recall works by stripping a memory of the time and place it happened, which is why the memories you revisit most feel like facts you read rather than things you lived. — tap to centre the map on it Spaced recall works by stripping a memory of the time and place it happened, which is why the memories you revisit most feel like facts you read rather than things you lived. Last stated 2 years ago
25 May 2024
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Charan Ranganath — holds since 2024-05-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Memory research is broadening to how memory shapes future thinking, problem solving, decision making and creativity, and the trend is likely to continue — tap to centre the map on it Memory research is broadening to how memory shapes future thinking, problem solving, decision making and creativity, and the trend is likely to continue Last stated 8 years ago
21 Feb 2019
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Daniel Schacter — holds since 2019-02-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Having both episodic and semantic memory is what lets a mind change on a dime without erasing what it already learned, and it is why humans can learn from so little data. — tap to centre the map on it Having both episodic and semantic memory is what lets a mind change on a dime without erasing what it already learned, and it is why humans can learn from so little data. Last stated 2 years ago
25 May 2024
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Charan Ranganath — holds since 2024-05-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Synthetic experience can only rehearse what a system already knows; information about the world has to be injected from outside. — tap to centre the map on it Synthetic experience can only rehearse what a system already knows; information about the world has to be injected from outside. Last stated a year ago
12 Sept 2025
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Sergey Levine — holds since 2025-09-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Remembering is an imaginative construction: we do not replay the past, we reassemble a plausible version of it out of fragments. — tap to centre the map on it Remembering is an imaginative construction: we do not replay the past, we reassemble a plausible version of it out of fragments. Last stated 2 years ago
25 May 2024
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Charan Ranganath — holds since 2024-05-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Imagined futures mislead when they leave out features that matter, and help when they represent the critical ones — tap to centre the map on it Imagined futures mislead when they leave out features that matter, and help when they represent the critical ones
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Daniel Schacter — holds since c. 2012 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Reading further back in history shows that what feels new and unique to the present era is usually a very old pattern. — tap to centre the map on it Reading further back in history shows that what feels new and unique to the present era is usually a very old pattern. Last stated 5 years ago
25 Jan 2022
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Marc Andreessen — holds since 2022-01-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work. — tap to centre the map on it A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work. Last stated 2 months ago
14 Aug 2026
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Susan Kare — holds since 2026-08-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them — tap to centre the map on it A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them
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Isaac Asimov — holds since c. 1959 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness — tap to centre the map on it A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness Last stated 14 years ago
8 Jan 2013
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Daniel Dennett — holds since 2013-01-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A better school looks more like the old-fashioned schoolhouse than like project work; the more school resembles free play, the worse it gets. — tap to centre the map on it A better school looks more like the old-fashioned schoolhouse than like project work; the more school resembles free play, the worse it gets. Last stated 4 months ago
27 May 2026
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Scott H. Young — holds since 2026-05-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A dense-looking building does not by itself create a livable dense suburb without supporting schools and shops. — tap to centre the map on it A dense-looking building does not by itself create a livable dense suburb without supporting schools and shops. Last stated 8 years ago
2 Jun 2018
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Felix Salmon — holds since 2018-06-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A lack of education makes women's talk insipid and their solitude unbearable; learning is necessary to make them useful company — tap to centre the map on it A lack of education makes women's talk insipid and their solitude unbearable; learning is necessary to make them useful company
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Mary Astell — holds since c. 1694–1697 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A slot machine triggers the brain’s learning and curiosity pathways while teaching nothing, and that one-way exchange is what makes it contemptuous of the player. — tap to centre the map on it A slot machine triggers the brain’s learning and curiosity pathways while teaching nothing, and that one-way exchange is what makes it contemptuous of the player. Last stated 13 years ago
3 Jul 2013
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Raph Koster — holds since 2013-07-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI tooling has not compressed the gap between great and average engineers: it is still two or three times, and for the same reasons as before — curiosity and appetite for the bleeding edge. — tap to centre the map on it AI tooling has not compressed the gap between great and average engineers: it is still two or three times, and for the same reasons as before — curiosity and appetite for the bleeding edge. Last stated 6 months ago
1 Apr 2026
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Thuan Pham — holds since 2026-04-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: American transit agencies stay expensive out of incuriosity: the practices that would fix them are written in languages nobody in the room reads. — tap to centre the map on it American transit agencies stay expensive out of incuriosity: the practices that would fix them are written in languages nobody in the room reads. Last stated 4 years ago
12 Jan 2023
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Alon Levy — holds since 2023-01-12 — tap for who they are
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Flexibly recombining past experiences should help in imagining the future, because the future rarely repeats the past exactly
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Remembering the past and imagining the future are one brain process, which is why what you can imagine is bounded by what you have already lived.
Holds
Spaced recall works by stripping a memory of the time and place it happened, which is why the memories you revisit most feel like facts you read rather than things you lived.
Holds
Memory research is broadening to how memory shapes future thinking, problem solving, decision making and creativity, and the trend is likely to continue
Holds
Having both episodic and semantic memory is what lets a mind change on a dime without erasing what it already learned, and it is why humans can learn from so little data.
Holds
Synthetic experience can only rehearse what a system already knows; information about the world has to be injected from outside.
Holds
Remembering is an imaginative construction: we do not replay the past, we reassemble a plausible version of it out of fragments.
Holds
Imagined futures mislead when they leave out features that matter, and help when they represent the critical ones
Last stated c. 2012
Holds
Reading further back in history shows that what feels new and unique to the present era is usually a very old pattern.
Holds
A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work.
Holds
A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them
Last stated c. 1959
Holds
A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness
Holds
A better school looks more like the old-fashioned schoolhouse than like project work; the more school resembles free play, the worse it gets.
Holds
A dense-looking building does not by itself create a livable dense suburb without supporting schools and shops.
Holds
A lack of education makes women's talk insipid and their solitude unbearable; learning is necessary to make them useful company
Last stated c. 1694–1697
Holds
A slot machine triggers the brain’s learning and curiosity pathways while teaching nothing, and that one-way exchange is what makes it contemptuous of the player.
Holds
AI tooling has not compressed the gap between great and average engineers: it is still two or three times, and for the same reasons as before — curiosity and appetite for the bleeding edge.
Holds
American transit agencies stay expensive out of incuriosity: the practices that would fix them are written in languages nobody in the room reads.
Holds