Listen to this article Self-education can be wonderful and frustrating at the same time. If you go about it correctly, you can teach yourself anything in just a few months. Poorly applied, however, self-education can be a stressful nightmare. I’d like to share my tips to achieve the former and avoid the latter. My self-education […]
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How to Debug Your Brain
Intelligence is the ability to predict. Learning is taking the results of past predictions and applying it to future predictions. Stupidity is ignoring the results that don’t match your predictions. Therefore, it seems there are a lot of stupid people. I’m always amazed at how passionately attached people can become to a political ideology. Capitalists […]
Book Review: Zen to Done
“Zen To Done (ZTD) is a system that is at once simple, and powerful, and will help you develop the habits that keep all of your tasks and projects organized, that keep your workday simple and structured, that keep your desk and e-mail inbox clean and clear, and that keep you doing what you need […]
10 Tips to Be Accomplished and Instead of Just Busy
Doing tasks is an easy way to make yourself busy. But all that extra work might not be going anywhere. Unless you are actually getting projects accomplished, you might just be wasting your time. This was the idea proposed by Cal Newport in his guest entry here, The Art of the Finish. I always strive […]
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