Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott Young is all about how to learn things well and quickly. In summary, ultralearning = specific goal + specific benchmark + specific timeframe + significant upfront and periodic investment in learning how to learn + intense amount of time + spaced schedule based
“Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career” by Hermina Ibarra is a book oriented around case studies of people transitioning careers. At its heart, it has a reasonable methodology and it contains nuggets of wisdom that I think are useful …and maybe even “unconventional”. However, it shrouds this in
Peoplware is a popular book about management for software projects, though I imagine it is applicable to nearly every project. The core idea is that managers are managers of people, not technology, yet most people don’t manage that way. Most software projects that go wrong go wrong because of
Last summer, I finished reading David Bornstein’s book “How to Change the World: Social Entreprenuers and the Power of New Ideas”. The book is pretty neat, detailing the work of several “social entrepreneurs”, or talented people who work to solve social problems in their communities. The book also details
I’ve noticed that quite a few people are interested in fostering communities – both creating communities and improving them to make them work together. But how do we go about actually doing this? What’s there to community that we can foster and build upon? What makes a community thrive,
Elad Gil, among other thing, was a VP at Twitter who helped scale the company from 90 to 1500 people. He wrote a book, ”High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People”, to write about how to scale a company, mainly through the hiring of lots of
Some of these are classics. Some of these are insightful. Some of these don’t make sense. Some of these might be misattributed. Some of these I just made up. Enjoy! Acton’s Dictum - “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Allen’s Maxim - “You can
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Originally written on 2016 January In “Deep Work” [https://href.li/?http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/], Cal Newport spends the first third of the book arguing for the importance of “deep work” and the second 2/3s telling you how to achieve it. Deep Work Deep work is spending a
What is this? This is an essay where I explain my opinions on meta-ethics through a guided discussion with a hypothetical inquisitor. It seemed like a much easier, more efficient, and more fluid format than writing a dozen tinier essays. The only downside is at 4797 words, it’s a
Originally written on 2011 January. Pokémon has been a fixture of many childhoods, and of all the Pokémon, seem few to captivate as much as Mew [https://href.li/?http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mew]. He was popularized in the very first Pokémon movie, which featured a showdown between Mew
Originally written on 2009 April. This is a famous thing from the advanced annals of mathematics again. Luckily there is very little mathematical debate on this, but at a time — there used to be. However, this is a problem that many people (including me) have trouble visualizing, so they just