Chapter Two. Strategies or Patterns

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How many books, articles, memos, e-mails, and Web sites do you struggle to read each year? Even if you read them all, how much can you remember? All the highlighters and yellow stickies in the world won’t ensure that you can recall the information when you need it. In this chapter we introduce you to patterns and try to show how they can solve some of the problems you face in today’s overloaded society. The name of a pattern captures the essence of the idea you want to remember. A collection of related pattern names creates a special “language.” We think you’ll soon be “speaking” patterns!

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