“We found that one of the biggest differences” : Carey, Benedict. “Remembering, as an Extreme Sport.” New York Times Well Blog, May 19, 2014.
For more interesting connections between memorization and general thought, see: The Art of Memory, by Frances
A. Yates, which was first published in 1966. The most accessible version seems to be the handsome 2001
reprint by the University of Chicago Press.
Rule #3 “the most connected man in the world”; “I was burnt out”; “By the end of that first week”; “The end came too soon”; and general information about Baratunde Thurston’s experiment: from the Baratunde
Thurston article “#UnPlug” that appeared in the July–August 2013 issue of Fast Company.
http://www.fastcompany.com/3012521/unplug/baratunde-thurston-leaves-the-internet.
The reference to Thurston’s Twitter usage refers to the tweets on March 13, 2014, from the Twitter handle
@Baratunde.