🌲 Takeaways on Efficiency, Passive Learning, & Optimization
If you can break inaccurate mental models, life becomes easier to navigate. But how do you do that? I know two ways.
- Find people who understand things better than you and read what they have to say. Read with the intention of answering your questions. If you can’t find the answers, email them.
- Perform experiments. By this I don’t mean do random thing
Henrik Karlsson • Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What to Focus On
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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cognitive velocity. It was necessary, I concluded, to improve my sample efficiency .
I define intelligence, loosely, as sensemaking from the observation of patterns. A smarter person can detect patterns before a dumber person. The smarter mind is more efficient with the data it receives from the world. So what I really needed to do, while I still po... See more
I define intelligence, loosely, as sensemaking from the observation of patterns. A smarter person can detect patterns before a dumber person. The smarter mind is more efficient with the data it receives from the world. So what I really needed to do, while I still po... See more
Dean W. Ball • How I Work
