Hack #19: Seed Your Mental Random-Number Generator

Your mind is like your computer's random-number generator: it needs a "seed" from the environment to break out of its routines. You have to put something into it to get something out!

You can read the full text of this hack at oreilly.com.

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Links

• Random Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
• Random page from H2G2: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/RandomEditedEntry
• Other random URLs: http://randomurl.com
• Wikipedia entry for "Random number generator": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generator

Errata

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Hack Author

Ron Hale-Evans

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This is a page for a hack from the book MindPerformanceHacks by Ron Hale-Evans.