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In this essay, Carson Gross discusses his advice to young people interested in computer science worried about the future given the advancements in AI.
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Want to be a lifelong learner? Don’t go it alone | Psyche Ideas
The history of autodidacticism shows that learning has always been social. The right relationships open intellectual horizons
The Brain Doesn't Care How Clear Your Explanation Was
What happens before the explanation matters more than the explanation itself. Here's the neuroscience behind why.
How a team learns to trust a quote it did not build - The Loadstar
Four in five air freight quotes on cargo.one now go out without human review. Here are the six patterns that build forwarder trust in AI quoting.
We have run enough of these deployments to see the same six patterns emerge.
Fourteen Thousand Omelettes
It takes ten years to make a chef, a man told me once. it took me two just to learn how to make an omelette.
How the brain learns to read is an evolutionary mystery—a new study offers clues
Reading hasn't been around for long, evolutionary speaking. Instead, the brain recruits systems evolved for other purposes
What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn? (For English Speakers) | TheCollector
Some languages are harder to learn than others. Difficulty often depends on your first language, so here are the hardest languages for English speakers.
Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling - Punya Mishra’s Web
Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat…
The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn
Our love for telling tales reveals the workings of the mind
12 Best Free Platforms to Learn DevOps with Hands-On
Practice makes a devops perfect.
Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do it
Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your…
What makes good magnet programs attractive?
Gather advanced students, then teach them where they're at
The Humble Amoeba Is Smarter Than You Think
The Humble Amoeba Is Smarter Than You Think: A conversation with Nicholas Money, mycologist and author of A is for Amoeba
20 YouTube Videos to Watch Before You Die
The ultimate list for using YouTube to learn
1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities
Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more. Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
llm-wiki
llm-wiki. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Why Your Second Brain is Dead Weight
Your Notes Aren't the Bottleneck
ELI
Paste any research paper and understand it at your level. From picture-book simple to college-level analysis, every section adapts to you.
The principles and laws you've never heard of
10 lesser-known principles that explain more about life than most books do
Hanlon’s razor
Price’s law
The Legibility Problem
What happens in a world where AIs make scientific discoveries that humans cannot understand?
My concern is not whether we can “see” inside these new models, but whether we will even understand — or be able to control — what comes out of them.
Scientific discoveries must eventually intersect with material reality to have any utility. They must be instantiated as therapies, materials, and public policies
Smashing Newsletter #542: UX Research Strategies and Tools
52 Things I Learned in 2025
Here are some of the most interesting things I learned this year.
How Accurate Are Learning Curves?
We’ve talked several times on this substack (as well as in my book), about the learning curve, the observation that costs of a produced good tend to fall by some constant proportion for every cumulative doubling of production volume: go from 100 to 200 units, costs might fall by…
Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI
My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for the delay!” and I mean it. I use “This reminded me of something I once read—” as…
Hashcards: A Plain-Text Spaced Repetition System
Announcing my latest open-source project.
They Created a Streetwear Line From Scratch. In High School.
At a school with a basketball-themed curriculum, students were “dreaming big.” But could they find a buyer?
Anki is already dead
what 98,000 flashcard reviews and japanese taught me about learning with llms
The Software Tycoon Scaling AI Education to a Billion Kids
As an elementary school principal, a feared software tycoon, a genial recluse, and a technology zealot determined to redefine childhood for mankind, J
There is always an instrument invention that causes the inflection of a science,
AI is a Floor Raiser, not a Ceiling Raiser - Elroy
An AI assistant that remembers and sets goals
Spaced Repetition Systems Have Gotten Way Better
Spaced repetition systems are a well-known way to efficiently learn material. Recent innovations have applied machine learning to greatly improve their scheduling.
Can You Use ChatGPT To Learn a New Language?
Can't find a human to practice a language with? I've been there. Here's why most of my interaction with ChatGPT is in other languages.
Things that arent progress
A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to founders doing these things, I started thinking about why they were happening. I realized that...
Classical Reasoning and Debugging
Classical philosophy offers us multiple reasoning strategies for dealing with tricky bugs.
How to Learn from a Failed Negotiation
Turn a loss into future wins.
Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything
He is Silicon Valley’s favourite economist. Does his lust for knowledge have a place in the age of AI?
How to use NotebookLM for personalized knowledge synthesis
Two powerful workflows that unlock everything else. Intro: Golden Age of AI Tools and AI agent frameworks begins in 2025.
Physics — Susan Rigetti
The Dumber Side of Smart People
Most people will die after three days without water.
Anki - powerful, intelligent flashcards
Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning
Engaging the fine motor system to produce letters by hand has positive effects on learning and memory
Innovative three-year-olds expose the limits of AI chatbots
New experiments show that very young children are better at solving creative puzzles than ChatGPT and other AI models
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy
Ability to See Expertise is a Milestone Worth Aiming For - Commoncog
Good news: we have a neat, universal milestone on the journey to mastery. What that looks like, and how to use it.
Why can’t Americans agree on, well, nearly anything? Philosophy has some answers
Two concepts can help explain why society seems increasingly unable to agree on basic facts.
How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine - Superorganizers - Every
Shopify’s Director of Production Engineering explains how reading broadly helps him get to the bottom of things
The Science of Mind Reading
Researchers are pursuing age-old questions about the nature of thoughts—and learning how to read them.
The Coach in the Operating Room (2011)
Outside ears, and eyes, are important for concert-calibre musicians and Olympic-level athletes. What about regular professionals?
Deliberate doubt: the art of questioning our assumptions
Deliberate doubt is the practice of actively questioning our beliefs and assumptions. It is about suspending our certainty and letting go of our preconceived notions in order to explore new ideas and perspectives.
How to become an expert | Psyche Guides
The path to mastery is long, winding and hugely fulfilling. Use this map to navigate and overcome any bumps along the way
How I Use Robert Greene’s Notecard System
I adopted the master researcher’s notecard system to transform great ideas into actionable steps