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Here are three levels of mapping, arranged in decreasing effectiveness as memory aids:
• Best mapping: Controls are mounted directly on the item to be controlled.
• Second-best mapping: Controls are as close as possible to the object to be controlled.
• Third-best mapping: Controls are arranged in the same spatial configuration as the objects to be controlled.
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Syntax coloring isn't useless, it is childish, like training wheels or school paste. It is great for a while, and then you might grow up. I no longer need help in separating operators from numbers. But assistance in finding the functions and their contexts and influences is valuable.
Context Coloring
Douglas Crockford
Jhanas, breathwork, psychedelics, MDMA, etc are all tools to for inducing altered states, from which new insights can arise. None of the actual methods matter, so much as putting your brain into what I think of as “developer mode,” from which you can write new rules that govern your thoughts and behavior, then close things up and operate anew. (Some people call this [“neural annealing.”](https://opentheory.net/2019/11/neural-annealing-toward-a-neural-theory-of-everything/))
How to Do the Jhanas
Nadia Asparouhova
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