I’ve been wondering whether one of the most powerful things that separates the humans from the animals is the simple list.
It’s easy to tell when I am focused – I have a set of lists and I am working my way through them. It’s just as easy to tell when I am out of control – I have no list.
There are many, many personal and professional management systems that at their basic level are systems of lists.
I love the interaction of twitter – which is basically a dynamic list.
I’ve also noticed that if you want a really popular blog post you write a Top 10 list or similar.
Lists are everywhere.
The human skill is handling and manipulating the list.
I wonder if there are any exercises that I could do to make my brain better at handling lists?
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Graham Chastney 
Hi Graham,
Learn LISP.
Get a copy of the book “The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” and it will also increase your understanding of computer science in General.
Here is the complete text http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ – I have a dog eared hard copy I bought when at University – Learning Fortran, COBOL and Pascal in that order – we touched on LISP for 1 lesson.
BTW never id COBOL or Fortran after that but coded business programs in Apple UCSD Pascal for many years later.
Regards Lagi Pittas
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