Minimal Anki Deck

[ShaddyDC]

I thought this list was a good candidate for spaced repetition like with anki.

I have created a simple deck for personal use, but I figured maybe others here would find it useful too. I am not personally planning on updating or maintaining it. It gives you a name of a law or principle and shows a description afterwards.

It only has the name of each law or principle, a link to it in this repository, and the description given. Minimal styling was applied to ensure readability, but most was left as is.

Note that this really is not the optimal design for Spaced Repetition—consider the rules of formulating knowledge—especially examples like the fallacies of distributed computing have way too much detail to memorise without more work. However, since for me, only the general ideas are important, it's enough. The optimal structure also depends on a student's goal, so I am unsure how much sense it makes to improve this in general.

Some other ideas for future improvements

• Ask law name from description (would need adapted description that doesn't include the name)
• Consider if laws with 2 names need special handling (eg "All Models Are Wrong (George Box's Law)", "The Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule)")
• This was created by hand, but automating the process to keep it up-to-date would be cool. CrowdAnki may be a format to generate
• Improve styling for laws with dense text (see example below)

Hacker Laws.zip (zip contains apkg file anki can import)