#168 Adam Robinson — Positioning Yourself for Success
In that class, we talk about a concept scientists call “interleaving.” The basic idea is simple: If you want to learn something, you’re better off varying your practice rather than grooving one identical rep after another.
Phil Stutz • Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential
See. Most of what we know comes from other people. The ease of learning from others determines, to a large extent, how quickly we can improve. Do. Mastery requires practice. But not just any practice will do. Our brains are fantastic effort-saving machines, which can be both a tremendous advantage and a curse. Feedback. Progress requires iterative
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But the pleasant surprise: It has been enormously helpful in my attempts to resurrect and improve my rusty engineering knowledge, and level up my middle-aged forays into maker-ing things. The killer app for me is the ability to go deep in a domain for remedial learning. The most immediately helpful use-cases for me have been:
- Getting back into codin
Venkatesh Rao • You've Been Matrix-Multiplied
Think of the distinction Sam Altman made on 20VC about building products with AI that new models might crush versus those that benefit from improved models.