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Ask HN: How do you personally learn?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you personally learn?
#82Aside from learning by doing, I spend a fair amount of time building intuition. Reading a lot is the bulk of my strategy. Blogs, books, HN comments, reddit and the occasional YT video. This is all passive, so it's not as good as actually doing stuff, but I find that it accumulates (slowly) and helps me build more context, which ultimately leads to something of an intuition for whatever I'm working on. I've been doing…
"Suggestions about stricking a balance would be greatly appreciated"
Michael Neilsen (spelling?) suggests adding something into your Anki deck if it's worth >=10 mins' time to memorise. (As that's the total time you'll spend reviewing it in Anki, if you keep using Anki forever.)
Re: Ask HN: How do you personally learn?
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is an interesting idea to be able to generate mind maps automatically. I just keep a few pages aside, scribble notes, use bookmarks for pages if I am reading a book. Only when I am done, I build a mind map. Usually a book's mind map is made up of multiple mind maps, 1 per chapter. I use mind maps for the forest overview while flash cards are my trees and leaves! I find the combination very simple to build, maintai…
Great combo suggestions. Are there any specific tools you use for the mind maps?
Really a personal mix of analog and digital; I will try to explain a bit in detail, hope this gives an idea.
So I use Bullet Journal (analog notebooks) for perusal work and Notion/Org Mode for office work; Notion for non IP work and Org mode for IP work. My org mode is not in cloud anywhere; only on my disk. All my planning and to-dos go somewhere in here.
I follow this directory layout convention in my home directory:
Projects//: - Books - Articles - Courses - Papers
So for everything I am working through, say a book 'Realtime Rendering' under 'Graphics' subject area, I make a dir 'Books/realtime-rendering' directory with 'mind-map' directory which contains all mind-maps scanned from my analog mind map notebook where I make the mind maps with pen and paper. This also contains the exported Anki flash deck for that book.
After making this a habit, I have found that I have become selective about what to work through; I take my time to find out as there is good but worth-it effort to make flash cards and mind maps for long term memory augmentation. Even if I am not very regular (only about 50-60% a week) to review my cards, I am way better off now than before putting this system in place.