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The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach, the developmental psychologist Howard Gardner
Scott Young • Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Codecademy
Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
BLOGS AND PERSONALITIES Andrew Chen’s essays http://andrewchen.co Noah Kagan’s blog http://okdork.com Patrick Vlaskovits http://vlaskovits.com/blog www.twitter.com/pv Jesse Farmer http://20bits.com Sean Ellis http://www.startup-marketing.com http://growthhackers.com Paul Graham’s essays http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html Aaron Ginn http://www.
... See moreRyan Holiday • Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
“CODE”—Capture; Organize; Distill; Express.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
I think there are lots of potential ways the declarative-to-procedural transition of knowledge might be applied by clever ultralearners in the future.
Scott Young • Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
A good strategy to take is to pick a resource (maybe a book, class, or method of learning) and apply it rigorously for a predetermined period of time. Once you apply yourself aggressively to that new method, you can step back and evaluate how well it is working and whether you feel it makes sense to continue with that approach or try another.
Scott Young • Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Many ultralearners opt for projects rather than classes to learn the skills they need. The rationale is simple: if you organize your learning around producing something, you’re guaranteed to at least learn how to produce that thing. If you take classes, you may spend a lot of time taking notes and reading but not achieve your goal.