chief memory officer
n.— «Change is great but only if you learn from the past. Your chief memory officer remembers the past so that you avoid repeating mistakes while tinkering and kludging.» —by Simone P. Joyaux Strategic Fund Development Mar. 1, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Katherine from Allentown, Pennsylvania, remembers her grandmother teaching her to say Lucky lucky white horse, ding ding ding! whenever a white horse pulling a delivery wagon passed her house. After each ding, they were supposed to lick their left...
“Cornbread,” a poem by Kentucky writer Silas House, is thick with sensory memories of Appalachian cooking and family: scooping cornmeal by hand and “the splash of egg, the gallop of buttermilk.” The poet recalls his mother cooking after work, the...