Author: dnbt777

The whole idea: compress the concept by repeatedly practicing explaining it until you understand it from first principles 1) Try to explain the concept as best as you can (ideally out loud, as this is much more effective). Pretend you’re having an imaginary conversation where you are explaining the concept to someone else. 2) While […]

For long-term learning endeavors (chess, BJJ, etc) you’re going to encounter plateaus. These can stall progress by weeks or even years. A great way to break through plateaus is to improve fundamentals. Either improve ones you suck at, or find new ones you’re not aware of and get good at them. This article focuses on […]

The most valuable kind of knowledge is the type you get from experience. So how do you get a ton of it? Touch grass. (do new stuff)Not just some.As much as possible. Meaning: maximize doing new unfamiliar things. You’ll get lots of new, useful, experience-based knowledge. The kind you get from years of experience. The […]

Do “outline speedrunning”: Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the ‘loading-bar’ style (more on that below) Don’t just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the very next thing you make so you can […]

I went from a C student to an A engineering student while enjoying work more and having 100x more freedom TLDR (because I also hate digging through articles for the thing I clicked for): When I went to college I did extremely poorly sophomore year for numerous reasons, mostly being lazy and procrastinating. After immense […]