I was bored last night and perusing some TeX source code from the arXiv, including some of Jacob Lurie's.

Many of his papers are over 100 pages long, and I was curious how he labeled all his lemmas, theorems, etc. so that he can hyperlink to them in the document, and how he remembers all them with a paper that long.

It turns out that he uses random words most of the time, and sometimes they aren't even words.

Some examples of href labels he used: "cablus, swisher, postwish, lak, swin, swath, kumma, toptrunk, sap, swu, kanter, korder, slip, kilrow, slapp, jilker, seaward," and the list goes on, and on... (edit: here is a small sample of one paper - this one)

I can't find any rhyme or reason to these terms in terms of their order in the paper or their relation to the content of the statement.

Is this some sort of savant super-genius "memory palace" technique where he can remember all (hundreds!) of them by associating them with unusual words?