Topica
Table of Contents
Books
A Brief Work on Artificial Memory: [1: first translation]
Art of Abbreviation: [1: numbered paragraphs]
Art of Making Memories: [1: Winnie the Pooh] [2: page palace]
Art of Local Memory: [1: rough sketch]
Atomic Habits: [1: systems case]
Body for Life: [1: exercise plan]
Catena Aurea: [1: mental masterpiece]
Curious: [1: fact learning]
Didascalion: [1: liberal arts]
Fruits of Solitude: [1: paragraph design]
Harvard Classics: [1: reread project]
Loisette Exposed: [1: snake oil]
Memory Chalet: [1: cozier term]
Memory Code: [1: memory objects]
Memory Craft: [1: beginner book]
My Inventions: [1: Tesla autobiography]
Nicomachean Ethics: [1: disciplined memory]
Remember It!: [1: beginner book]
Situation Matters: [1: Aquinas example]
Summa Theologiae: [1: prudence memory]
The Book of Memory: [1: scholastic reading] [2: Magnus essay] [3: Aquinas rescue] [4: mental notes] [5: contemplative reading] [6: note model]
The Extended Mind: [1: interoception]
The Greatest Salesman In The World: [1: ten principles]
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: [1: divine contrast]
The New Science of Politics: [1: difficult book] [2: contemplative reading]
The Republic: [1: disciplined memory]
The Way of the Bull: [1: youthful reread] [2: spite reading]
Tiny Habits: [1: habit blueprint]
Topics: [1: memory reasoning]
Unlimited Power: [1: NLP revisit]
Ideas
3 Pillars of Renewal: [1: authenticity inquiry]
affective forecasting: [1: feeling errors]
antipalace: [1: excess storage] [2: note failure]
antilibrary: [1: Eco idea] [2: spite cousin]
apeiron: [1: Greek notion]
artificial memory: [1: art definition]
authenticity: [1: renewed pillar]
compound interest: [1: reading returns]
contemplatio: [1: transcendent stage]
context: [1: image setting] [2: reaction setting]
cue fan: [1: partial activation]
discovery: [1: attending world]
elaboration model: [1: resolution aid]
evocation model: [1: reading theory]
fan effect: [1: retrieval drag]
familiarity: [1: cue property]
forms: [1: Platonic contrast]
generative library: [1: change books]
generation effect: [1: resolution aid]
gestalts: [1: patterns over forms]
hedonic treadmill: [1: adaptation trap]
hermeneutics: [1: interpretation art]
heuristics: [1: biblical tools] [2: mental shortcut] [3: mnemonic basics]
hyperphantasia: [1: Tesla gift]
interaction rituals: [1: depressive acuity]
interference: [1: cue crowding]
interiority profile: [1: inner toolkit]
interoception: [1: inner senses]
inquiry: [1: renewed pillar]
intentio: [1: nonsensed property] [2: treasury model] [3: contemplation bedrock] [4: binding meaning] [5: reaction memory]
inventio: [1: flashcard fallacy]
latency: [1: cue property]
lectio: [1: deep reading] [2: reading bookend] [3: outer reading]
load: [1: cue property]
long-term memory: [1: easier engagement]
maʿānī: [1: nonsensed meaning]
meditatio: [1: contemplation] [2: daily partition] [3: inside reading]
metacognition: [1: knowledge turn]
misattribution of arousal: [1: bridge study]
Monkey Paw Problem: [1: goal backfire]
need for cognition: [1: knowledge appetite]
oratio: [1: transcendent stage]
partialness: [1: symbolic mediation] [2: partial activation]
phantasmata: [1: book shadows]
quiddity: [1: essential nature]
rate-limits: [1: scarce thinking]
reactive memory: [1: cue response]
referents: [1: symbol relation]
res et verba: [1: symbol debate]
resolution: [1: richer shadow]
scriptio continua: [1: scroll model]
self-help addiction: [1: hope chasers]
self-insight: [1: wanting wrong]
sensed and non-sensed properties: [1: mental objects] [2: memory divide]
spite library: [1: rereading past]
submodalities: [1: sensed properties] [2: scene building] [3: NLP overlap]
symbols: [1: book medium] [2: shadow casting] [3: binding meaning] [4: reaction cue]
System 1 and System 2: [1: dual treasury]
T-Shaped Skills: [1]
transmission model: [1: reading critique]
treasury of intentiones: [1: memory treasury]
working memory: [1: reading burden]
People
Akira Haraguchi: [1: pi recall]
Albertus Magnus: [1: intentiones essay]
Anne Murphy Paul: [1: inner toolkit]
Anthony Robbins: [1: NLP critique]
Aristotle: [1: memory reasoning]
Augustine: [1: old reading]
Avicenna: [1: maʿani source]
Cicero: [1: artificial memory] [2: study guidance] [3: wax analogy]
Jacques Colin: [1: humanist tract]
Johann Franck: [1: 1620 edition]
Lambert Schenkel: [1: symbolic system]
Benjamin Franklin: [1: builder model]
Benjamin Tucker: [1: Liberty editor]
B. J. Fogg: [1: habit method]
Charles W. Eliot: [1: Harvard curation]
Daniel Willingham: [1: working memory]
Donkey Kong: [1: banana ghost]
Dominic O’Brien: [1: beginner guide] [2: beginner classic]
Edward de Bono: [1: lateral thinking]
Eric Voegelin: [1: difficult author] [2: contemplative author]
Erving Goffman: [1: depressive ritual] [2: bubbling note]
George Washington: [1: outcome paradox]
Harry Lorayne: [1: early mnemonic] [2: beginner guide] [3: beginner classic]
Hugh of St-Victor: [1: Didascalion guide]
Ian Leslie: [1: fact learning]
James Clear: [1: systems focus]
Julius Caesar: [1: fridge locus]
Lynne Kelly: [1: beginner guide] [2: modern revival] [3: memory objects]
Marcus Aurelius: [1: closet locus]
Marcus Dwight Larrowe: [1: Loisette seller]
Mark Twain: [1: Loisette convert]
Mary Carruthers: [1: masterwork] [2: Magnus source] [3: Aquinas source] [4: seminal study] [5: slow absorption] [6: composition model]
Marie Kondo: [1: spark joy]
Mr. T: [1: mastery ideal]
Napoleon: [1: outcome paradox]
Nelson Dellis: [1: beginner guide] [2: modern revival]
Nikola Tesla: [1: imagery control]
Peter Ravenna: [1: vast loci]
Plato: [1: cave metaphor]
Quintilian: [1: memory rules] [2: local memory] [3: five rules]
Raphael Regius: [1: translation dispute]
Randall Collins: [1: sociological link]
Richard Bandler: [1: teenage favorite]
Robert Anton Wilson: [1: hallway exercise] [2: different heads]
Scott Young: [1: flashcard critique]
Simonides of Ceos: [1: origin story]
Thomas Aquinas: [1: ancient reader] [2: rescue method] [3: mental notes] [4: inspiration] [5: note model] [6: prudence memory] [7: four rules]
Tony Buzan: [1: entry point] [2: beginner classic]
Umberto Eco: [1: antilibrary] [2: spite cousin]
W. W. Jacobs: [1: cursed wish]
Places
Boston: [1: Liberty archives]
California: [1: Tuckerist heirs]
Silicon Valley: [1: counterculture legacy]
Techniques
Aquinas method: [1: note-free reading] [2: physical books] [3: advanced method] [4: linked notes]
autogenics: [1: blood example]
binding intentions: [1: symbol setting] [2: reaction binding]
book map: [1: single-sheet outline]
curate your memories: [1: selective palace]
fact-based learning: [1: lazy rationale]
flashcards: [1: flashcard fallacy] [2: software substitute]
image streaming: [1: bubbling ideas]
inside reading: [1: meditatio practice]
integrative reading: [1: practical change]
intention based mnemonics: [1: reaction centered]
Lindy test: [1: cave metaphor]
making memories: [1: natural process]
major system: [1: early training]
memory diner: [1: guest stories] [2: book structure] [3: cue conversation] [4: inside reading] [5: how I use mnemonics]
memory objects: [1: object scaffold]
meta-palace: [1: book titles]
method of loci: [1: easy introduction] [2: ordered images] [3: book storage] [4: organizing reactions] [5: beginner method] [6: physical object]
note taking: [1: no physical notes] [2: two note kinds]
number peg system: [1: ancient peg]
question tree: [1: facts to questions]
spark joy: [1: forgetting rule]
syntopical reading: [1: past survey]
zettelkasten: [1: software notes] [2: permanent notes]
Things
ADHD: [1: encoding gaps]
Anki: [1: spaced review]
book index: [1: medieval innovation]
book cover: [1: memory object]
khifu strings: [1: memory object]
lukasa board: [1: memory object]
Monkey Paw: [1: cursed talisman]
nootropics: [1: genius pills]
PKMS: [1: mnemonic system]
QWOP: [1: memory analogy]
Traditions
ars memoria: [1: renewal project] [2: translated tract] [3: local tradition]
individualist anarchism: [1: Liberty lineage]
medieval scholastics: [1: reflection] [2: interpretation art] [3: Avicenna uptake] [4: four stages] [5: virtue memory]