Memory is everything. Just imagine not having any; you wouldn’t be you. Everything you perceive and think is structured by memory. Memory is a theoretically infinite resource, and it underpins the entire diversity of human expertise- whether physical or cognitive. Meanwhile, resources for processing information are the envy and inspiration of all contemporary artificial intelligence (AI). Why does AI seem so much smarter than us? It isn’t the processing; instead, it is its access to highly structured information.

Virtually all education materials aimed at critical thinking presuppose foundational knowledge at the same time that they decry memorization. Consequently, most students default to some form of rote memorization to prepare for evaluations. Rote memorization, and practices like re-reading, are as inefficient as they are miserable. At mnovum, we develop memory-first curricula that mnemonically index entire swathes of domain knowledge. Mnemonic indexing makes acquiring knowledge easier and faster, at the same time that it makes learning more fun and longer-lasting. It’s the most radical innovation in learning since logic and science.