Tag: learning
All the articles with the tag "learning".
Let your unread books pile up
My unread pile grows faster than I can read it, and after three passes through one book I stopped treating a shelf of finished books as knowledge I own.
Why does Sam Altman switch notebooks every two weeks?
Working memory holds about three new things for about thirty seconds. Writing is how you get past that limit, and how you keep readers from hitting theirs.
The questions that steal an expert's know-how
Gary Klein's Critical Decision Method turns a vague gut feel into two questions anyone can ask.
How to steal an expert's gut feel
Gary Klein's Recognition-Primed Decision model explains how experts read a messy situation in seconds, and how you can train the same habit.
The Feynman technique: write it out and see what you don't know
Richard Feynman's four-step study method, why it works on memory, and how writing catches the knowledge you only think you have.
Why the teacher remembers and the students forget
Retrieval and deep encoding are what make anything stick, and writing happens to be the easiest way to do both.
Are you Planck, or his driver?
Charlie Munger's story about Max Planck's chauffeur, and why depth of knowledge is what carries you through the questions you never rehearsed.
I quit my job and blogged for a year
Post 51. Why I walked out of a developer job to study thinking and persuasion, and what a year of writing every Sunday did and didn't give me.
Speed reading that actually works, checked against the research
Three standard speed reading tricks that the research kills, three that survive it, and how to build the reading muscle underneath them.
The reading method that never fails
The four-step method in full: record, summarize, connect, repeat, and why counting the books you finished is the wrong scoreboard.