<i>> His storytelling benefits from his hyperthymesia, a rare condition that gives him exceptional memory across his entire life. </i><p>Well that explains something.<p>I saw Romero give a (fantastic) talk at Strange Loop last year. What completely blew me away was the Q and A afterwards. For like half an hour, people would ask him all sorts of random questions and for every one, he had an unbelievably detailed answer.<p>At one point, someone asked about the Id's transition from having all employees be equal partners to hiring employees with a salary and how that worked out around compensation. With zero hesitation, he just started walking through, "Well, in $year we all made $x and then when we hired $employee, we paid him $y but then later we updated it to $z..." And he just kept going with concrete dates and numbers for anything. It was like a total Rain Man experience, and every question was like that.<p>It's like his entire past is an open book exam. For someone who can barely remember what he did last week, I'm jealous.