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New Industries Come From Crazy People
New Industries Come From Crazy People
Industrial visionaries tend to have chaotic and disruptive personalities. Their goals don't neatly fit the social ladder. But societies that make room for them reap immense rewards.
·palladiummag.com·
New Industries Come From Crazy People
The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life
The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life
The long read: The phrase ‘adult beginner’ can sound patronising. It implies you are learning something you should have mastered as a child. But learning is not just for the young
·theguardian.com·
The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life
The Notecard System: The Key For Remembering, Organizing And Using Everything You Read - RyanHoliday.net
The Notecard System: The Key For Remembering, Organizing And Using Everything You Read - RyanHoliday.net
After the response to this recent LifeHacker piece, I thought I would explain the system I use to take notes, research books and keep track of anecdotes, stories and info I come across in my work. This isn’t the perfect system. It might not work for you. All I can say is that since learning it about 7 years ago, it has totally transformed my process and drastically increased my creative output. It’s responsible for helping me publish three books in three years, (along with other books I’ve had the privilege of contributing to), write countless articles published in newspapers and websites, ...
·ryanholiday.net·
The Notecard System: The Key For Remembering, Organizing And Using Everything You Read - RyanHoliday.net
Optionality is for Innumerate Cowards
Optionality is for Innumerate Cowards
MBAs love to talk about “optionality” and how they want more of it. But you don’t need an MBA to explain yourself by saying you’re…
·byrnehobart.medium.com·
Optionality is for Innumerate Cowards
Elements of Effective Thinking
Elements of Effective Thinking
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking offers easily learnable habits of mind that improve your ability to think clearly and rationally.
·fs.blog·
Elements of Effective Thinking
Richard Feynman: Knowing the Name of Something
Richard Feynman: Knowing the Name of Something
If you’re after a way to supercharge your learning and become smarter, the Feynman Technique might just be the best way to learn absolutely anything. Devised by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, it leverages the power of teaching for better learning.
·fs.blog·
Richard Feynman: Knowing the Name of Something
The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything
The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything
If you’re after a way to supercharge your learning and become smarter, the Feynman Technique might just be the best way to learn absolutely anything. Devised by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, it leverages the power of teaching for better learning.
·fs.blog·
The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything
Knowledge Building Blocks: The New Meaning of Notes - Forte Labs
Knowledge Building Blocks: The New Meaning of Notes - Forte Labs
One day in your early school years, a teacher probably told you to “take notes” for the first time. Looking around at your fellow classmates, this seemed to involve writing down what the teacher said, word for word, on lined pieces of paper. For most of us, this is how our experience of note-taking started: ... Read more
·fortelabs.co·
Knowledge Building Blocks: The New Meaning of Notes - Forte Labs
Intermittent Media Fasting
Intermittent Media Fasting
I started fasting more frequently, using the Zero App (intermittent, typically the 16/18 hours). Our bodies don't need to constantly be fed. It can slow us down when it's overdone: Here's a good primer thread: This sluggishness I was unconscious about when I was younger. As a teen, and into college I would eat whatever, whenever, thinking that it was normal and not paying any attention to the feeling of being full, the energy drain, and the other side effects like brain fog.
·davidsherry.substack.com·
Intermittent Media Fasting
What Matters More in Decisions: Analysis or Process?
What Matters More in Decisions: Analysis or Process?
We all make decisions. Some of them are large and many of them are small. Few of us understand that the process we use to make those decisions is more important than the analysis we put into the decision.
·fs.blog·
What Matters More in Decisions: Analysis or Process?
Steinbeck’s Productive Inactivity - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
Steinbeck’s Productive Inactivity - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
Good news: if you have $17.9 million available, John Steinbeck’s 1.8 acre waterfront retreat is now for sale. It’s tucked onto a grassy peninsula in Upper Sag Harbor Cove, and features a pool, a long pier, and two cozy guest cottages. Arguably most important is the hexagonal, 100-square-foot “writer’s house” overlooking the water. Encountering this […]
·calnewport.com·
Steinbeck’s Productive Inactivity - Study Hacks - Cal Newport