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Ass-Kicking Email – Great Free Resources for Learning
Hey,
In this email:
1. Completely free online resources to help you in any subject.
2. Quick tip to help you stay productive during stressed times.
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There are a ton of online resources to help you learn better. I
can only go over a few of them in this email, but I wanted to share
with you some of my favorites:
1. Open Course Ware at MIT
Here you can download course materials from hundreds of MIT courses,
there are even videos, sample problems and answers and lecture
notes for many of them.
2. Stanford University’s YouTube Channel
More limited than MIT’s, there are still some great videos here,
especially if you are an engineering or computer science major.
I went through the entire Programming Paradigm course myself and
was very impressed with the quality and depth of instruction.
http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity
3. Khan Academy
Thousands of videos covering mathematics, finance, history, physics
and many other subjects. Short explanations of some of the tricky
ideas. Chances are whatever you’re “stuck” on might be found here.
http://www.khanacademy.org/
4. Better Explained
I’ve already made reference to Kalid’s excellent website before in
these emails, but he deserves mention again. Difficult math and
computing concepts are given much better explanations than your
typical textbook.
5. LingQ
Switching from math to languages, LingQ is one of my favorite online
resources for learning languages. It’s system allows you to listen
to audio, read the transcript and translate words all within one
interface. It was helpful for me early on in my French.
Have any of your favorites that I haven’t mentioned? Reply to
this email with them and I can share them with the rest of the
group!
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Productivity During Stress: Make Your Time Top-Heavy
Top heaviness is a skill I’ve used to make it when I haven’t had a
great deal of time. When something is top heavy it means that the
amount of mass isn’t spread evenly, there is more at the beginning
than at the end.
A joke with a 20 minute build-up and 1 sentence punch-line is top
heavy.
A schedule that does 15 tasks Monday and 3 on Friday is top-heavy.
I’ve found that the busier I am, the more useful being top-heavy
becomes. That means I take my exhaustively long weekly goals list
and make the first few days of the week very demanding to keep up.
I also usually tightly monitor my routine those days, so I’ll wake
up early, eat meals quickly and miss the evening festivities on the
first few days.
The beauty of this system is that because you aren’t adding more
to your weekly goals list, it results in easier days of work
before you’re about to burn out.
My experience has been the opposite tactic, trying to evenly spread
the work over all 7 days, has disastrous results. I tend to
procrastinate more on the early days (because there is no end in
sight) and then I have a bottom-heavy schedule which requires a
lot of agony to get through.
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That’s all for this week, I’ll see you in the forums!
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