“Well, first of all, become a doctor and discover a marvellous cure for something, and then, when the medical profession really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there’ll never be any diseases ever again.”

- that was an explicit Monty Python reference, right? (”How to cure all known diseases. First, have a really good idea and then, when the scientific community start to listen to you, you just tell them how and make sure they get it all down right so there’ll be no more diseases.”)

- I’m vaguely reminded of a movie that, I think, starred Patrick Stewart, as a former intelligence agent who was worried that he was beginning to suffer from Alzheimer’s. Good movie to see when you’re in the right mood (i.e. interested in the mind and how it works). He had put together some hacks for real life, and his reaction to crisis was based on a prepared series of truly moby hacks.

- The only hack I can provide is not really a hack, more a straightforward survival mechanism: keep a small pad and a pen on that little table your alarm clock sits on next to the bed, so that when your wife tells you something at 11pm that You Are Not Allowed To Forget, you can just write it down.