Allen but one of the bad ones, woooo on Nostr: The problem with mnemonics and acronyms to help remember things is that you're ...

The problem with mnemonics and acronyms to help remember things is that you're replacing one hard-to-remember thing with a different thing that's even harder to remember because it's entirely synthetic and has no natural link to the thing it's about for your brain to hook into.

I mean. Think back to childhood and you're expected to learn the names of the planets in order, so you sit there on test day, pencil in hand, you conjure up the mnemonic: My Very Happy Monkey Jumps On The Table. And now you're screwed. We're not all actors, good at learning our lines word-perfect, we need better memory tools.