That's why checklists were invented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preflight_checklist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preflight_checklist A previous girlfriend

That's why checklists were invented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preflight_checklist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preflight_checklist A previous girlfriend literally "simulated" every event and created what she called a "flight plan" that she memorized and followed. That seemed to me as a very neat algorithmic solution. I'm a programmer with bad memory but that solution has helped me with some tasks and keeping my job at large companies.