Perceptual exposure is the rare learning technique that allows you to learn tacit knowledge — that is, knowledge that can't be communicated. And it begins with a simple question: how do you tell if a chick is male or female?
A summary of everything I know on the topic of building career moats.
Commonplace is shifting to a 'at least once a week' posting schedule, instead of twice weekly. Here's why.
Ken Kocienda's book is about how Apple builds software in the time of Steve Jobs. Highly recommended, especially if you're a software engineer.
Greg Wilson's Teaching Tech Together is ostensibly about teaching computer programming, but contains a wonderfully written section on how humans learn.
Charles Duhigg's 2012 book on habit introduces a bunch of valuable ideas from the academic literature of habit creation, but is ultimately not very useful to the practitioner.
Amy Hoy's guide to shipping side projects, books, businesses and software — basically, any product you'd like to launch.
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Regret minimisation is often in direct conflict with optimising for career outcomes. A short reflection.
The mental model fallacy is that it’s worth it to read descriptions of mental models, written and aggregated by non-practitioners, in the pursuit of self-improvement and success. It isn't.
If Seymour Papert was right about how humans learn — what does it mean for learning mental models for our careers?
