Learning Optimization

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>Spaced Repetition
>Mental Outlining
>Deliberate Practice
>"Ultralearning"
>Interleaving
>Mode Hacking

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Lately I've been wondering if the speed at which I express myself (e.g., my typing/handwriting speed) has an influence on my speed of cognition. I've been looking into ways to record my thoughts faster so that I don't have to slow down to accommodate slow input methods. Learning traditional shorthand looks promising, but the only way to break the 100-150 wpm barrier without relying heavily on predictive input seems to be spending a tone of time and money to learn how to use a steno keyboard. There are ways to adapt a QWERTY keyboard to steno input (see: Plover), but they're rough and attempt to adapt the chorded key layout rather than applying the syllable/whole word chording input paradigm to something comfortable on a QWERTY keyboard. I have ideas on how to do that but no real way to implement and test them.

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