If the Yale thingy wasn’t cool enough, now there’s this, and I’m jazzed:

Thanks to the discussion of memory techniques in Prisoner of Trebekistan, I’ve just been invited to speak to a cognitive science class at UCLA.

Neat!

When I was a kid, I was always told what to learn, but rarely how.  Some of the stuff in Trebekistan, particularly around chapter nine, has a lot of the how and even some of the why and when.

One of the reasons I wrote the book is that I dearly want everybody to know how to remember stuff better.  Learning how has made a big difference in my life.  (Although if you saw me blow a big Final clue in last year’s Ultimate Tournament of Champions, you know it hasn’t been quite as much as I’d like.)  The stuff I found out might help you or your family, too.  Hope so.