My secret to remembering people

Or, why you should have a ‘People’ note.

[Photo: Jared Newman]

Let me tell you my trick for remembering the names of people I meet: I don’t.

It’s not for lack of caring. It’s just that my stupid brain seems to only excel at remembering trivial things, like my family’s exact food orders at a random restaurant we went to in 2023. That same brain is largely worthless at matching names to faces, especially when it’s been a while.

So a couple years ago, I swallowed my pride........

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