Learning

David Perell

Don't Go to College This Fall

Use your time to start an online business. Live at home, spend as little money as possible, and find a side job if you need …

NoDesk

How a Non-Techie Learned to Code from Scratch

My background is in business and apart from being intellectually curious and interested in technology, I have no previous …

Farnam Street

The Value of Grey Thinking

One of the most common questions we receive, unsurprisingly, is along the lines of What one piece of advice would you …

David Perell

Coolest Things I Learned in 2019

I write a weekly email called the Monday Musings.

The most popular part of the newsletter is a section called “Coolest …

Collaborative Fund

How to Read: Lots of Inputs and a Strong Filter

My reading strategy is to start as many books as I can but finish few of them.

MIT Sloan Management Review

Learning for a Living

Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it.

Paul Graham

The Lesson to Unlearn

The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn’t something you learned in any specific class. It was learning to …

Julian Shapiro

Writing Well

This handbook is for:

1. Aspiring writers who fear publishing themselves online: This will provide you with confidence in your …

The Guardian

Listen up: why we can't get enough of audiobooks

In this time-poor, podcast-friendly world, audiobooks are booming. So what is the science behind them – and do they change …

David R. MacIver

How to do hard things

This is a system I only somewhat tongue in cheek refer to as “The Fully General System For Learning To Do Hard …

Andy Matuschak

Why books don't work

All this suggests a peculiar conclusion: as a medium, books are surprisingly bad at conveying knowledge, and readers mostly …

Medium

The Future of Learning

We can’t outpace the half-life of knowledge, but we can change how we think.

David Perell

Coolest Things I Learned In 2018

It’s fun and eclectic, interesting and intriguing. This is a collection of the most popular insights I shared in 2018.

The Startup

(Deliberate) practice makes perfect: how to become an expert in anything

Typically, repeated practice takes us up to a medium level of success. After an initial spike, progress stalls, plateaus — …

freeCodeCamp

The Hard Thing About Learning Hard Things

In the real world, there’s no textbook or curriculum. There’s no way to practice. There’s no source of …

Open Culture

Wynton Marsalis Gives 12 Tips on How to Practice: For Musicians, Athletes, or Anyone Who Wants to Learn Something New

Practicing for countless hours before we can be good at something seems burdensome and boring. Maybe that’s why …

Robert Heaton

How to read

Learning comes from repetition, but books are long and verbose and not designed with this in mind. You can get a macro, …

Farnam Street

Lifelong Learning

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; …

Hacker News

How to learn new things better?

How to learn new things better?

Medium

My journey to becoming a web developer from scratch without a CS degree, 2 years later (and what I learned from it)

Today I’m going to let you know about what went right, and what didn’t, so that anyone else embarking on this …

Farnam Street

The Best Way to Learn Anything: The Feynman Technique

There are four simple steps to the Feynman Technique, which I’ll explain below:

1. Choose a Concept, 2. Teach it to a …

Scott Hanselman

Stop saying learning to code is easy

Learning to programming is NOT easy but it’s totally possible. You can do it.

freeCodeCamp

Please do learn to code

Here’s why programming — unlike plumbing — is an important skill that everyone should learn: programming is how humans …

Hacker News

Is it worth paying for a Coursera course?

There are lots of free courses online but some offer the option of paying and receiving a certificate on completion. Does …

Fast Company

Why Learning To Code Won't Save Your Job

Unfortunately, many have already learned the hard way that even the best coding chops have their limits. More and more, …

Hacker News

What's the most useful online course you have watched?

Fellow Hackers, I am bored and want to learn something new. Have you watched any interesting/useful online courses recently …

The Economist

MBA diary: Why you probably don't need an MBA

Which is to say: remember, you do not need an MBA. Only do it if you want to. Food and water are needs; an MBA is an …