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From the article:
- It just needs for the writer to work hard to make it clear Writing is humanity’s superpower — when done well, it informs, provokes, and entertains.
- When an author takes the time to prepare a high-quality article, knowledge flows seamlessly from one mind to another.
- If you’re curious about a topic, or even confused by it, the best thing you can do is write about it.
Particularly like his honesty, exposing his vulnerabilities in a way we can only laugh, and reflect on it ourselves.
Whether you're an artist, an entrepreneur or aspire to improve yourself, you certainly can relate to his work and self-reflections.
Accelerated learning is fascinating because learning today is so inefficient. Combine that with the massive knowledge that accumulates over the years.
Elon Musks said it himself. Along with Solar Energy, Mars colonization, AI, knowledge acquisition needs to be disrupted. Something like bio-technology with transplanted chips.
Reading books is a very old way, and it doesn't scale well. Listening to podcast isn't very efficient either. Gamification has not been effective enough so far.
You can also see it in "Matrix", when training in a virtual world with a karate-training program that interacts directly with the brain. As you do when dreaming, but in an interactive way.
In the "Fifth Element", there's also a scene where Milla Jovovich (an advanced being) learn all Human History in a matter of hours/minutes with accelerated reading/watching the Internet.
I'm sure there are many other examples of people putting "accelerated learning" as one feature of the future.
(And I'm already excited to be there.)
Arguing for 5 minutes or 10 minutes can consume your whole day afterwards (in your own mind). When you say something, be it bad or good, words will continue to resonate silently in her mind (and yours).
I also noticed when I'm working at something really important, or when I'm on an epiphany of discovering some glorious truth, I naturally don't mind any argument thrown at me. I'm just focused on that beautiful and exciting thought, and no external input could shake it out of my head. I then realized how futile other person's worries and "sadness" are.
It's relativity: the wider your awareness (and the brighter your thoughts), the more shocking it is to see people "closed minded", prisoner of their own thoughts's limitation, and self-imposed grief.
Oddly, we keep going from one to the other. Sticking with mindfulness is hard.
It seems like I was blindfolded about learning. I used to see it as taking as much input as possible. Example: want to learn React? Read books, follow tutorials, do exercices on your computer. Then I realized this was not effective.
The missing part was the output. I figured out, not only I need to take input (read), to process it (practice), but also to do it for someone else. This can be explaining to someone, showing what I do, teaching, making a video or a tutorial.
I used to be very good about learning early in my life. I now realized it wasn't because of the resources (It was almost zero), but because I was so excited to show my dad, my brother and sister what I could accomplish on the computer. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have learn anything.
I certainly put a lot of practice into it, but it was only a consequence of my excitement to show others.
Lately I followed lots of tutorials and books, but was not excited about it, because I was learning those only for myself.
Producing output (teaching others, videos, blog, useful projects) is key.
Mindfulness about "distraction" is the first step. We don't need more time, we need to prioritize what we do every moment of the day.
What also helped me is to switch my mental approach when reading: I don't see it as a "read it from A to Z" task.
I took the opposite approach, reading only the first 20 pages of lots of different books. It gives a wide perspective of what's available, it broaden the spectrum of knowledge. Then I rate each book so I can come back and read through the ones that look the most appealing to me.
My opinion is do what you feel most excited about.
For me, it was drawing and coding from age 10 to 20. And I seldom read books.
Now, I'm mostly excited about reading on a wide range of topics (non fictional books). I find it amazing to discover the world through books, just like having a conversation with the most interesting people that ever existed on Earth.
Our taste change over time. Just like I couldn't eat garlic, salad or pomelo when I was a kid. Not true anymore.
If you "force yourself" to do coding while your interest is elsewhere, it can be as harmful as forcing a kid to eat garlic and pomelos.
Just do the right things at the right time. Listen to your inner excitement when doing things, or after completing a task.
Visual sort is also impressive.
It reminds me all those little programs I used to do in my 10-18 yo days. (I was programming mostly on a Mac with Hypercard, Think Pascal, Resedit back then).
I used to reproduce all the small games I could program (Snake, Tetris, Solitary, Pacman, Breakout...) plus some educational projects (vocabulary quizz, irregular verbs, math plot, fractal drawing)
I noticed same people on different videos, and was thinking the "randomness" might not be so random. I wonder what's the algorithm to pick a random video?
- Learning how to learn (Barbara Oakley).
- Keeping track of my reading
- Journaling
- Jim Rohn's philosophy (any book, or 7 Strategies For Wealth)
- Osho's philosophy (any book) Location: Europe (Spain)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Go, Rust (learning), PHP, Git, HTML/CSS, Javascript, React, Docker, Linux, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Résumé/CV: https://yoricm.com
Email: [email protected]
Location: Europe (Spain, Valencia)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Php, Golang, Javascript, C, Linux, HTML, CSS, GIT, Docker, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Résumé/CV: yoricm.com
Email: [email protected]I've worked remotely for 2 years as a lead developer in a fiber optic company backed up by Xavier Niel, setting everything up from scratch. I have CS degree, 15 years of professional experience.
I'm looking forward to contribute in a small team with real, humble persons.
Email: yoricm [at] free [dot] fr
Personal Website: https://yoricm.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoric-mangeart/
StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/4119809/yoricRemote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Golang, Javascript, React, Docker, PHP, Composer, Git, Bash, Linux, Python, C, PostgreSQL, MySQL, CSS, HTML
Résumé/CV: https://yoricm.com
Email: y [at] yoricm [dot] com
Fullstack Developer (10+ years of experience, CS Master Degree), I enjoy every bit of technology. Loop forever: Learning; Sharing; Teaching; Creating; I worked remotely full time for 2 years as a lead developer in my latest job.
- https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant
- https://github.com/channelcat/sanic
- https://github.com/pypa/pipenv
- Read all the books I'm interested in (I get depressed thinking I won't ever have enough time to read them all, even if I stopped working for the rest of my life)
- Watch all the youtube channel I'm following
- Learn how to play the piano smoothly.
- Put everything I read and watched into application in my own life. What's the heck to keep theories in your head if you don't put them into practice ?