4.1 · How to Actually Learn

Thinking, Learning & Decisions · 4.1

The direct fix for my own sentence: "I mostly never go in depth, but shallow-learn everything quickly."

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Ultralearning

Scott Young

Aggressive, project-based depth on a deadline. Nine principles, built around going absurdly deep on one thing instead of thinly across ten.

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Make It Stick

Brown, Roediger & McDaniel

Why rereading and highlighting feel productive and don’t work. Retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving. This will measurably improve my AI reading pipeline — especially the comprehension-check stage.

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Deepen

Peak

Anders Ericsson

Deliberate practice from the researcher whose work was mangled into the "10,000-hour rule." The real version is more demanding and more useful.

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A Mind for Numbers

Barbara Oakley

Focused vs. diffuse mode. Useful concept, thin book.

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