Here's an excerpt from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman. Feynman is talking with a group of physics students from Brazil. I discovered a very strange phenomenon: I could ask a question, which the students would answer immediately. But the next time I would ask the question-the same subject, and the

Here's something that took me a long time to realize. Memorizing the text of an abstract principle is worthless. Concrete examples are the gold standard of SRS. This is unpleasant, because it means you can't just paste your textbook's bolded theorems, formulas, and facts, into Anki. Instead, you have to

When I decided to learn poker, I learned a bunch of cards like this. But even after I knew the cards well, I wasn't able to apply the knowledge when I played. My Anki-knowledge was totally separated from my real-world knowledge. The reason they didn't transfer was feel. When you