Vasili Shynkarenka
How to remember what you learn
Make it time-based, apply metacognition & active recall, and learn what you’re curious about.
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BBC
The benefits of note-taking by hand
Computers and phones have become the go-to note-taking method for many. But your brain benefits from an old-fashioned pen and …
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The Atlantic
A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life
Higher education is often described as an investment. But it’s still unclear if it pays off in happiness.
Happiness LearningDavid 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 …
LearningNoDesk
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 …
Learning Side ProjectFarnam 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 …
LearningJosh Comeau
How To Learn Stuff Quickly
It’s often said that the internet has democratized education: the sum of human knowledge is only a Google search away! …
LearningThe Atlantic
How College Became a Ruthless Competition Divorced From Learning
It is a truth universally acknowledged that elite parents, in possession of excellent jobs, want to get their kids into …
LearningDavid 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 …
LearningCollaborative 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.
LearningMIT Sloan Management Review
Learning for a Living
Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it.
LearningPaul 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 …
LearningJulian Shapiro
Writing Well
This handbook is for:
- 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 …
Learning LifeDavid 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 …
LearningAndy 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 …
LearningMedium
The Future of Learning
We can’t outpace the half-life of knowledge, but we can change how we think.
LearningDavid 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.
LearningThe 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 — …
LearningfreeCodeCamp
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 …
LearningOpen 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 …
LearningRobert 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, …
LearningFarnam Street
Lifelong Learning
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; …
LearningHacker News
How to learn new things better?
How to learn new things better?
LearningMedium
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 …
LearningFarnam Street
The Best Way to Learn Anything: The Feynman Technique
There are four simple steps to the Feynman Technique, which I’ll explain below:
- 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.
LearningfreeCodeCamp
Please do learn to code
Here’s why programming — unlike plumbing — is an important skill that everyone should learn: programming is how humans …
LearningHacker 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 …
LearningFast 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, …
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