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Re:Show HN: GitHub for Learning on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @01:25PM (#24850018)
Yep! It's basically a user-maintained collection of free courses and tutorials from all over the Internet, coupled with a personal learning management system.

Like the Wikipedia for learning content.

Re:Ask HN: Which Time Management method do you use? on Sunday October 18, 2020 @08:27AM (#24817313)
Weekly routines and daily to-dos, periodically adjusted for long-term goals.

The power of routines is that your brain is not frequently using up energy for getting you to do whatever you have to do--instead, you're simply showing up to something you expect would happen.

Re:Ask HN: What keeps us committed to something besides motivations an... on Saturday October 17, 2020 @08:39PM (#24814714)
Edit: I realise conscientiousness is a much more precise word choice than discipline
Re:Ask HN: What keeps us committed to something besides motivations an... on Saturday October 17, 2020 @08:38PM (#24814712)
Is stubbornness itself axiomatic or actually derived from an intrinsic motivation?
Re:Ask HN: What keeps us committed to something besides motivations an... on Saturday October 17, 2020 @08:33PM (#24814691)
Aren't they just different forms of either intrinsic or external motivations?
Re:Ask HN: If you get to open your own university, what would you change? on Friday October 16, 2020 @08:25AM (#24800097)
Really good points! Motivation, incentive, social component, and sources of assistance will all need to be meticulously crafted if one were to challenge the current system.

Ask HN: Any founders willing to outsource small projects to learners?

Posted by IvanVLiu on Monday October 05, 2020 @06:42PM
from the ask-hn dept.

We are a skill-oriented learning platform (astrasum.com) and we are building a feature, AstraApprentice, through which learners practise something (design, coding, etc) by doing small projects provided by organisations and companies.These orgs in turns can take in likely hundreds of submissions of some work they need to get done with some creativity, and use them for free. They can also find or...

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Re:Ask HN: What is your trick to do deep work or study? on Saturday October 03, 2020 @07:55PM (#24675591)
My best bet on getting into a flow when I am working or learning is having a routine that puts me in a state of mind that I am showing up to something instead of sitting through whatever I am going to do.

That means you're probably not going to experience any flow when you're just starting on something.

Anecdotally, I find it a very transferrable skill, which, once acquired from one subject or activity, would boost your capability to apply in another.

I suppose that's why meditation and yoga have been all over the place these days, as it goes along the same line of logic. On that note, perhaps just mediate and do yoga.

Project Astra Scholarship Programme

Posted by IvanVLiu on Saturday October 03, 2020 @07:42PM
from the self-post dept.

Apply here: https://astrasum.com/projectastraAstrasum focuses on building the future of learning. We break down your learning behaviour into elements and hack each and every one of them with tech.As Astrasum is rolling out high-powered features in development, we are launching an annual scholarship programme, Project Astra, for a cohort of 10 scholars that wish to contribute to transforming the...

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Show HN: Building the next-generation learning experience

Posted by IvanVLiu on Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:53AM
from the show-hn dept.

If you reflect a bit on how you learn, you will probably find that in order to acquire a skill or some level of expertise on a subject, you take 5 steps that make up your learning behaviour.1. You find the learning materials for the subject.2. You input these materials into your brain through reading and listening.3. You process the new information through memorising and associating in order to...

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Re:Show HN: Web app for optimising your learning experience and produc... on Sunday June 14, 2020 @03:43PM (#23520698)
This is our first-time public launch. Any candid feedback would be enormously appreciated! :)