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cognitive tools

2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

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Andy Matuschak

American software engineer and researcher — former Apple and Khan Academy — who works on tools for thought and transformative educational software — co-creator of Quantum Country (the first mnemonic medium combining spaced repetition with longform text).

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Michael Nielsen

Australian scientist and writer — co-author of Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (the standard textbook) — author of Reinventing Discovery (on open science) and Neural Networks and Deep Learning (free online textbook) — who left academia to write about the future of science.

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