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I leverage technology to replace memory. Details don’t matter if I know a thing exists and I’m good at finding things. Finding things is a far more useful skill to develop than memorization.

It is highly unlikely I’ll end up in a situation without cell signal, I carry an iPhone, Kindle Paperwhite, and a cellular iPad Mini (256gb) literally everywhere. (Handbags are awesome.)

On the off chance, I’m away from the internet and my kindle doesn’t have a useful book, I have all of Wikipedia and Wikitonary downloaded in Kiwix on my iPad Mini, downloaded PDFs in Dropbox, and a bunch of books in the D&D Beyond app, and videos in Youtube, because why not.

Any thing I need to remember is in Apple Notes or Scrivener. (All my research for stories is in a project file.)




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