“I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.”

“Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.”