Hello, Engram

An engram is the physical trace a memory leaves in the brain. This category is about deliberately laying down those traces — what I’m trying to remember, the techniques I’m using, and whether any of it actually sticks past the first week.

I’m running this as an experiment, not a tutorial. Spaced repetition decks, memory palaces, encoding strategies, retrieval practice — there’s a lot of literature and a lot of folklore. Some of it works for me, some of it doesn’t, and the only honest way to find out is to try things and measure.

Expect concrete posts: what I encoded, how I encoded it, what the retention curve actually looked like at one week, one month, six months. If a technique doesn’t survive that test, it gets retired here in public.