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Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many people wrote about this technique, the earliest known person to describe it was Cicero.
https://artofmemory.com/blog/how-to-build-a-memory-palace/ says "According to Roman legend, the memory palace technique was invented by Simonides of Ceos about 2,500 years ago" but Cicero died 2065 years ago, so, close enough?
I'm not convinced by this closet analogy for subject matter experts. Domain experts tend to have fully integrated, very differentiated and subjective ways to think about what they do. It's not like a pile either but I think more like a network of associations, a mesh. When you hear chess grandmasters talk, they don't go by "the rook is worth 5 and the knight is worth 3 points" or some neat system, they trust on intui…
>> It's not like a pile either but I think more like a network of associations, a mesh. That's exactly the point. Their knowledge has some organization and structure, it's not just random pile of information. The author is advocating that we help people to organize information so that it is more useful to them. They even go so far as saying to try understanding how the person models other thing to leverage that. In o…