Learning Techniques

Have you ever tried putting deliberate practice to practice? If you have, it's likely that you'll have noticed just how difficult it is to apply deliberate practice principles to your career. Anyone that tells you otherwise is lying; here's why.

Introducing the perceptual exposure playlist — a first attempt at putting perceptual learning to practice.

I tried applying the techniques from Amy Hoy's Just F*cking Ship to an overdue project. Here's what I learnt.

Stanford professor BJ Fogg's course on habit design is practical, free, and a marvel of psych-driven education design. My recommendation: try it for yourself and see.

An audit of all the self help techniques I've written about in the past six months — and how they've fared as I applied them to my life.

Reading self help is but a form of taking advice. Most of it is bullshit. But here's how to do it.

In a nutshell: update your mental models and stay open-minded. The latter being less obvious than the former.

Everything that's helped me read a book a week, even with a full-time job.

As you might’ve already guessed, my approach to thinking about career planning is to…

There are 3 kinds of non-fiction book: 💁‍♀️ narrative, 🌳 tree, and 🌿 branch. Not every non-fiction book is worth reading, and not every book should be read the same way. These categories explain why.