Learning

Teaching and learning: pedagogy, coaching, mentoring, study methods, mastering domains

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Trusted voices in Learning

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  1. visakanv — trusted by 203 posters here
  2. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 178 posters here
  3. mbateman — trusted by 171 posters here
  4. nosilverv — trusted by 176 posters here
  5. the_wilderless — trusted by 156 posters here
  6. DefenderOfBasic — trusted by 166 posters here
  7. eshear — trusted by 170 posters here
  8. AskYatharth — trusted by 146 posters here
  9. __drewface — trusted by 147 posters here
  10. RichDecibels — trusted by 132 posters here
  11. eigenrobot — trusted by 134 posters here
  12. tasshinfogleman — trusted by 141 posters here

Top posts in Learning

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  1. i'm working at a summer camp for ambitious high schoolers. it turns out several of them lurk here... your words are affecting the youths at a formative time of their lives! (Prigoose) — 39 likes
  2. imo: if you’re deliberate about “doing the reading”, whatever that means for any domain, within a year it’s possible to be in the top ~5% in the scene. This is because 95% of people don’t do the… (visakanv) — 38 likes
  3. I was told recently that I should stop posting on a topic until I've understood it more deeply and mastered the material. That seems to me to be backwards. It is exactly the material with which you… (eshear) — 35 likes
  4. once again discovering that a few minutes of thinking through a problem on paper was more effective than vaguely ruminating about it in my mind for weeks (visakanv) — 34 likes
  5. Been spending a lot of time with kids (8-15). It's surprising how much of their play time is allocated to rules lawyering. Or rather, not rules lawyering: rule creation -- the initial (rational)… (nosilverv) — 34 likes
  6. I am very pro reinventing the wheel you might think you know wheels, but what do you really know? how do spokes work? what are the principles of good axles? the Beatles were a cover band, Sony was a… (visakanv) — 33 likes
  7. nothing destroys your ability to learn new lessons more thoroughly in the long run than repeatedly being very very right when literally everyone thought you were wrong (eshear) — 33 likes
  8. if any mutuals ever want to learn or brush up on linear algebra, abstract algebra, topology, category theory, algebraic topology / homotopy theory, number theory, combinatorics, generating… (QiaochuYuan) — 33 likes
  9. so i've been thinking a little bit about how i'd go about introducing someone to math, a few people in portland have expressed interest in something like this. the rest of this will be some messy… (QiaochuYuan) — 32 likes
  10. guy: how do I make great art picasso: make 50,000 pieces guy: ur kidding picasso: im not (visakanv) — 31 likes
  11. update on my first ever bootcamp cohort -- one of my students just raised $400k for their startup!!! holy crap i'm so proud (__drewface) — 31 likes
  12. it’s my 31st birthday today 🥳 I am grateful to be here ❤️🙏🏾 my bday wish is that you take a sec to reach out to somebody who has helped you: a friend, a mentor, or even a podcaster or youtuber… (visakanv) — 30 likes
  13. ok not to sound dramatic but I used to be kinda dumb and now I'm smarter than like 80% of people and I know when & how it happened & I think the same method would work for most people (RichDecibels) — 30 likes
  14. I find explaining any actually interesting idea usually requires explaining like 5 subsidiary ideas. If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky it’s like 25 and either they’re ready for a three hour lecture… (eshear) — 30 likes
  15. u ever get the feeling there are some really basic skills in the skill tree u've been coping with not having for ur whole life? (tasshinfogleman) — 30 likes
  16. I’m excited to announce a new community experiment: "Fractal University". An in-person school community dedicated to completing (and teaching!) the best online courses in the world and publishing… (__drewface) — 29 likes
  17. "We are the average of the 5 people we spend the most time with" Well, we are also the 1,000,000 words we read that repeatedly cut the same grooves into thoughtspace in a vast network of interwoven… (eshear) — 29 likes
  18. I'm going to try to explain Alexander Technique using an idea from computer science: functions I am not a dev so forgive any mistakes a function is a separate chunk of reusable code that is called… (m_ashcroft) — 28 likes
  19. You prolly shouldn’t be allowed to study evolutionary psychology without also studying history To avoid positing just-so-stories about why humans do x that are easily dismissed by seeing that… (the_wilderless) — 28 likes
  20. The way I broke into the Montessori scene is that I read most of Montessori’s corpus, which way, way less than 5% of people even in that scene do. More like 0.5%. Or less. https://t.co/zDOoKOEq5w (mbateman) — 28 likes
  21. my cofounder presented a study that showed teenagers learn better if they can sleep in a little more, and the school came back with “well we can’t adjust it now, we have a contract with the bus… (DanielleFong) — 28 likes
  22. I got a job as a frontend developer! I did it by teaching myself, no computer science education and no coding bootcamp! I have so many people to thank for their help. If you ever interacted with my… (strangestloop) — 27 likes
  23. do you ever feel like you've spent your whole life just reconstructing common wisdom from scratch (goblinodds) — 27 likes
  24. to attract peers and mentors you need to be writing stuff that is at your personal edge, half-baked stuff you barely understand, conspiracy theories, howls in the night. writing "down" is for stuff… (QiaochuYuan) — 27 likes
  25. ah. i've been relating to grad school as "that time i failed to write a thesis" but it would be more accurate to say that my mathoverflow / stackexchange answers + my math blog posts *are* my… (QiaochuYuan) — 27 likes
  26. my recommendation is (napkin sketch) spend about 20% of your time/effort getting jacked, about 20% of your time/effort making money, another 20% goofing off and enjoying your life, and the last 40%… (visakanv) — 27 likes
  27. “You can just do stuff” sometimes feels like cursed knowledgeI could just start a poetry group. I could learn coding & make games. I could make a charity & find a party w rich ppl & ask… (TylerAlterman) — 27 likes
  28. Historically your life had three phases as a craftsman... 1) apprentice, absorbing basics from one master 2) journeyman, traveling from shop to shop broadening your experience 3) master, producing… (eshear) — 27 likes
  29. Amazing how often agency is just a problem of knowledge. There was a time when I’d just never asked: “You mean I can just [create a festival / start my own support group / learn fundraising / learn… (TylerAlterman) — 27 likes
  30. i think "wanting to create a better university" is a framing that's tediously burdened with functional fixedness. like "wanting to create better horse-drawn carriages". best way to approach it IMO… (visakanv) — 27 likes
  31. >Too large of a learning rate causes drastic updates which lead to divergent behaviors I cannot explain how strange it is to have your life history explicated to you by a diagram in a machine… (nosilverv) — 27 likes
  32. I'm running a disagreeability club with @VividVoid_! it's a fun and moderately uncomfortable place to learn how to not fold at the first sign of conflict starts next month: https://t.co/dYYZfsxyWq (RichDecibels) — 27 likes
  33. imo "being lucky" here is a proxy for "being sensitive to opportunity". if you can figure out how to win with one youtube tutorial, why bother doing more than that? https://t.co/QmR010fjtz (visakanv) — 27 likes
  34. i taught a class like this once but it was called introduction to leadership. i wrote “introduction to leadership” on the board then sat down and didn’t say anything and waited (QiaochuYuan) — 26 likes
  35. a redditor did spaced repetition with his kids. he taught: - his 4yo daughter to read at a 5th grade reading level - his 3yo son to do times tables up to 12x12 (Prigoose) — 26 likes
  36. what i've learned in Turkey so far: 1. How To Be a Man i felt called to learn Turkish and go to Turkey because of a tv show (Yunus Emre: Aşkın Yolculuğu), i wanted to learn how to be like the men in… (yoltartar) — 26 likes
  37. One of the most impactful things you can do for yourself is to tighten the OODA loop of personal growth (eshear) — 26 likes
  38. some of yall should reduce your twitter usage by ~98% and instead read 100 good books and write 500,000 words of introspective journalling and then you can return with real textual finesse (visakanv) — 25 likes
  39. it’s actually possible to live like this but it takes about a decade of plotting and scheming and solving for distribution and knocking over small dominos what you’ll have to do is do 100 quests for… (visakanv) — 25 likes
  40. Ok I think I figured out how to explain meditation finally lol. So, basically, there's two beats: in the first beat you are TRAINING YOUR ATTENTION. If you try to hold your attention on to something… (nosilverv) — 25 likes
  41. i think the worst mental habit i picked up from the way i played video games growing up was the idea that all mistakes can be avoided by a combination of looking up guides and save scumming. i think… (QiaochuYuan) — 25 likes
  42. If the polynesian wayfinding tradition had died out just a couple centuries earlier, so that we didn't have living practitioners as a matter of record, they'd tell us that navigating the pacific… (the_wilderless) — 25 likes
  43. Learning how to draw is actually UNLEARNING how to NOT see. What else is like this?? (nosilverv) — 25 likes
  44. i once took my friend out to teach her surfing to my dismay, all the tips and tricks i had spent weeks (two months!) accumulating meant she was as good at the end of day 1 as i was by week 8 (AskYatharth) — 25 likes
  45. I gotta be honest, I’m excited about Vision Pro and AR stuff for one reason, and one reason only: The human mind works best spatially, great ideas happen when we have universal basic… (the_wilderless) — 25 likes
  46. and then he DMs me being like, “I know that building strength is about progressive overload, but I can’t bear the idea of lifting just 30kg. how do you deal with not being able to deadlift 500kg?”… (visakanv) — 25 likes
  47. a lot of skill issues are actually identity issues https://t.co/lcDe8CFYYW (TylerAlterman) — 25 likes
  48. how to get human flourishing:- take people out of survival mode- teach them to use their bodies and minds well (psycho tech)- teach them to interface w each other (emotional intelligence, social… (exgenesis) — 24 likes
  49. I am running a contest for the best informational blog posts with awards totaling $1,500. The contest will run until November 1, 2022.Find details here - and please share with anyone who might like… (tasshinfogleman) — 24 likes
  50. doesnt it strike anyone else as odd that we have such little *practical* *relational* *emotional* wisdom built up in our culture (myceliummage) — 24 likes

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