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You can model knowledge as a graph of nodes of concepts/ideas When you abstract 2 or more ideas in a more general concept finding the edges among those nodes This will make show…

We can use atom to describe something that is minimal and indivisible We can have an atom of state like redux recoiljs We can have an atom of thought as Roam and Zettelkästen uses…

You can be wrong in many situations Make sure to always revalidate your ideas on new information like Bayesian approach P(A I): your probability of something should changed based…

Create a note for the source (book) Create a note for each idea/concept of the source For instance, a note for Make it Stick A note for spaced learning A note for interview…

edge Bleeding edge is the state of art of something It is the new technology When you focus on bleeding edge (new), you have an advantage as everybody start in a clean slate. You…

I believe we can learn a lot in books. We can learn knowledge that author took some years to figure it out in a few hours or days. It is like compressing your learning When…

If you never own the whole process of doing something, like having Skin in the Game, you never will "taste" reality (Reality has a lot of details I think this happens with who…

You can only deep dive if you know how to swim You can learn advanced stuff if you haven’t mastered the basics Defer Understand If you try to deep dive before learning to swimming…

Defer is when you let something to do in the future When learning something you don’t need to understand everything related to it You can defer some parts to the future When…

MindStorms meaning of functions (label them) meaning of parameters can you follow the flow? (what happens from one step to another) can you see the state? (how the state changes…

interactive learning are almost games focused in teaching you something CSS Practice

When you go to creativity work, you get to it because of Taste But there is a GAP, where you have the taste, but you produce bad things You need to do a lot of work, in a lot of…

generalist are robust to automation automation will automate a specific task, it can't be easily generalized generalist are better for long term solutions for holistic solutions…

The best people to work with are people that can handle uncertainty. You provide tiny pieces of information and they are able to figure it out the rest. When I'm working with my…

Improvement is a battle that must be fought anew each day. Your next workout doesn't care how strong your last one was. Your next essay doesn't care how popular your last one was.…

After Tobi talking about there is not such thing as frontend engineer and that you need to know more layers I'd like to talk about all the layers that I've learning in college…

Learn in Public was explicit written by swyx. It is about to learn and share your journey in public, share what worked and what don't It can be used to fail fast and learn from…

When I'm learning a new language I try to immerse myself with the language. I've change my computer, mobile phone, browser and everything to the related language. I'm using…

Learning in depth (learn a lot about one thing) Learning in breadth (learn a lot about many things) Learn why before how learn one thing at a time you gonna fail to code a new…

You can't teach everything just saying things to people riding a bicycle is one of the things you can't really teach, you can give advice of how to get stable but your body should…

Read multiple books in parallel to make them stick more Apply concepts in real life to make them stick Exercise/tests can help you Tests yourself knowledge to stop forgetting To…

“knowledge packets” little bits of truth (or errors) that we possess. most learning are almost entirely on the acquisition of knowledge packets things that one should or should…

A mental model is an Abstractions that let you think more clearly it is packages for our mind. for instance: Occam’s Razor: prefer simpler models as they have less assumptions.…

The idea of this note is to contain a list of blog posts, sites and other news resources that I can search This will evolve as I change my interests over time. Steve related to RSS

How can you solve anything fast? At a constant time? Everything that you solved before becomes 0(1) to solve again It basically says that any solution that you come up before…

Outliers is a book that tells the history of success of people The basic concept is that it takes 10k hours of deliberate practice to have great success. Bill Gates had 10k hours…

As a developer you can have many types of proof of work You can have a portfolio website that shows all your past projects (a few dots of your path) You can have some…

It is related to being Realistic of Principles Ray Dalio Being realistic is to listen to reality, and learn all details of it. It does not matter all your knowledge of your…

If you wanna teach someone something you need to repeat yourself If you wanna something to stick (Make it stick), this thing should show up more then once. When doing UX try to…

Research is when you look for a lot of related of something that you wanna understand more. (a topic, a problem, a solution, a book, a person). When you are looking to solving a…

The problem was to identifier the speaker for a given audio My first approach was the research about state of art of speaker recognition Then I implemented and tested a few, and…

How to Take Smart Notes Serendipity is when something happen by chance Serendipity of books happened when we were browsing/searching books in libraries We were looking for a book…

Why do I share? I share my knowledge so more people can learn fast I share to check if my "knowledge" is correct Sharing stuff people will share more stuff with you Open source is…

Side Project is a project that you do for fun or because you like or you want to learn something Here is my list of Side project ides Playground mdx based playground similar to…

People try to avoid struggle, but you only learn when you struggle. You need to be uncomfortable to learn something new, you won't get all the detail upfront, so you need some…

I got a new topic to learn. I read 30 articles based on that topic. I've skim reading 2/3 books on that subject. I've watched a few videos on that. Then, I start a new project to…

Steve Jobs said do work backwards Instead of starting with a technology and see how to sell to customers Start with customers and see what they need, and what technology fits…

Information Text is low resolution, it let some uncertainty to participants to feel in, it brings more engagement Audio/Video are more high resolution, it has less uncertainty. If…

We need more tools to make our thinking better Mental Models is one of the tool in our toolbox Note Taking (Bidirectional note taking) is another tool. Can we make people remember…

Instead of stop when you find the first answer, try to solve in different ways Do not fool yourself, if you can’t implement you don’t know If you can’t explain or demonstrate to…

If you are used to what I share on my blog posts, newsletter and twitter you would be surprised that I "go back" to learn the basics of CSS man, you can do AST codemods stuff, why…

Workshop is a set of practical exercises so users really "taste" how to solve something They need to struggle to solve at first to improve learning retaintion Zoom has a breakout…

Buying a course make your feel that you made a real commitment to learn something. Watching the videos also make you feel you are making progress. The problem start happening when…