eddyerburgh

So why smoke at all? Don’t you want to operate in life at your cognitive best?

For the course I would estimate 120-180 hours spread over 6 weeks.

I read the textbook over a couple of months, but I couldn't give you a good estimate in hours.

I just finished the distributed systems section of teachyourselfcs and I now have a solid understanding of a lot of concepts I previously only shallowly understood.

When I started learning, the recommended textbook was Distributed systems: Principles and Paradigms (the new recommendation is Designing Data-Intensive Applications) and the recommended course was MIT 6.824.

6.824 is the first online course that I have completed fully and it was well worth it. I read, took notes, and summarized all required course readings (around 20 papers) and completed the labs, which involved creating a raft-based key-value store. The labs were especially useful because they forced me to really understand the details of the topics I had learned (e.g., MapReduce, Raft, Raft’s log compaction) in order for my code to pass all the tests.

I’m very happy with the results of following the course and I now plan to put the same amount of effort into other topics.

It depends on the type of book.

For technical books, I take notes as I read. Once I reach the end of a chapter, I reword the rough notes and research anything I didn't fully understand. You can read my notes if you're interested: https://notes.eddyerburgh.me/

For fiction books, I highlight paragraphs I find interesting as I read on my kindle . When I finish, I use my highlights to write a short review of the book.

I've stopped reading most self-help/ business books now. I just read other people's notes on them instead.

That's because he only started it recently. His first post was November 30 this year, and he already has 5 high-quality articles!

They aren't automatically generated. These are the notes taken in the meeting. There were several note takers that worked over the three days to record the meeting.