Life – anonchic

The Exponential Returns of Working

A random rant about how I don’t like working hard, yet I do it anyway…

On Familiarity

When getting comfortable is more important than forcing yourself!

From LEARNING (1.), it’s easy to see the heavy emotional aspect of learning — it’s easy to remember emotional events, hard to remember when stressed and it’s impossible to be purely mechanical with our thinking. It’s nothing close to rational as people like to say. Stress can make you forget things not only when learning……

On Being Curious

Jotting is all about questioning — all about making sure the idea on the paper is worthy of being written down. If anything, questioning is building of creativity, like going to the gym to build muscle. The more questions you ask, the more relations you build between data points (’How is A related to B?’……

Point out the Problem

Also relates to : Asking better questions List out all the things happening in the area you’re working on Question every point to ask what’s going on Do you know what is the reason for that point to exist? List down your problems As many as you can, I’d say at least 20 points, maybe……

Notes and Notetaking

Taking notes while learning is two things — noting down interesting points and free-writing where I’m just writing down what I’ve learnt. Write drunk, edit sober. You can always remove stuff after writing it down, but once forgotten, it’s hard to remember again. I’ve probably deleted 99% of my notes because they were irrelevant later.……

Memory and Creativity

Memory techniques like mnemonics and memory palace help. However, it is important to learn the context and be creative to use the data effectively. Spaced repetition to make memory of a data point more solid. Interleave to reduce connections related to the order of learning (like B comes after A, tell me what comes before……

LEARNING

How to Learn

The FIG Method [Part I]

TL;DR: File–Image–Glue is all you need to remember anything!

Skeleton Framework of a Language [Part II]

TL;DR: Use tons of examples and analogies with memorable stories. Give the appropriate weight to different parts.

Mise en place

If you’re coming from here, you know that I’ve got… complaints. About a lot of little things in life. I’ve been travelling a lot recently, and there’s a lot I’ve learnt over the past six months. There was one trip where I was out for 4+ weeks out of a backpack, living really really comfortably.……