Books about history, philosophy, and science.
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Had to look this up.
It's a quote from Steve Jobs saying he thought computers would enhance minds the way bicycles enhance efficiency of travel.
Memory training tools. Like the memory palace, the person-action-object method, acronyms and mnemonics.
Visualisations like using the abacus method to do fast and accurate arithmetic.
And human-executable techniques like the doomsday algorithm and George Marsaglia's random number generator.