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Episode 462: Felienne on the Programmers Brain

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Speed Reading - How to Read Cold That Can Be Chunked

The trick in speed reading is to learn a large vocabulary of different trunks. You can easily process the information not because youare a good information processor, but you've seen four loops many, many times. The biggest chrunks will be from your long term memory - remember five lines at once. So that's my tip for reading. Once you are aware of this idea of trincable code, you can use that in code. We also talk about another technique in a book called using beacons. Beacons are things that make people think of a certain trunk. For like, o, if this isn't nul, then i can act as the other side of the end

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