Retrieval Practice is F*cking Obvious

In the science of learning, there is absolutely no debate: practice techniques that center around retrieving information directly from one’s brain produce superior learning outcomes compared to techniques that involve re-ingesting information from an external source.

Jan 8, 2025

What Raw Intuition Looks Like, Without Articulative Clothing

Jan 7, 2025

The Most Powerful Machine Learning Model You Will Ever Use Is Your Brain

Jan 6, 2025

PRNEWS.IO Blog: Public Relations & Digital Marketing Strategies

Taking Digital PR To A New Level

Jan 5, 2025

“I am twenty-something years old, is it too late for me to learn math/coding/etc.?”

Jan 4, 2025

New Year’s Resolution Motivation Compilation (2025)

Jan 1, 2025

It’s Nobody’s Responsibility to Continue Developing Your Talent

Dec 29, 2024

Learning Higher-Grade Math Ahead of Time is the Greatest Educational/Career Life Hack

Higher-grade math unlocks specialized fields that students normally couldn’t access until much later – and on average, the faster you accelerate your learning, the sooner you get your career started, and the more you accomplish over the course of your career.

Dec 28, 2024

Self-Reported Study Time is Incredibly Unreliable

Serious teachers know all about the slacking that goes on.

Dec 28, 2024

Breaking up is hard to do: Chunking in RAG applications - Stack Overflow

Dec 27, 2024

A student doesn’t have to favor math over video games to be a successful math learner.

Dec 27, 2024

Fortify Your F*cking Fundamentals

Skating around the rink will get you to a decent level of comfort in your basic skating skills, but being able to land jumps and spins will force a whole new level of robustness and fault-tolerance in those underlying skills. The same applies to knowledge in general.

Dec 27, 2024

Lots of students study way more than necessary while simultaneously learning way less than necessary.

Dec 26, 2024

The Best Mental Model for Serious Structured Learning

… is intense physical workouts.

Dec 26, 2024

You Have to Concentrate Your Efforts Directly On The Goal

Dec 22, 2024

The Worst Possible Way to Fail at Learning Math

… is to become an academic crank.

Dec 21, 2024

You Can Effectively Turn Long-Term Memory Into An Extension of Working Memory

The way to do this is to develop automaticity on your lower-level skills.

Dec 21, 2024

Try to Recall From Memory

Dec 20, 2024

Finding the Best Open-Source Embedding Model for RAG

Looking for the best open-source embedding model for your RAG application? We share a simple comparison workflow so you can stop paying the OpenAI tax.

Dec 19, 2024

Why Math Educators Should Care About Talent Development

In math, de-prioritizing talent development leads to major issues.

Dec 18, 2024

The Goal is NOT to Prove You’re Smart, it’s to Make Problems Go Away

Dec 16, 2024

How Grade Inflation Flies Under the Radar

Dec 15, 2024

Comfortable Fluency in Consumption is Not a Proxy for Learning

Dec 14, 2024

Playing Around Does NOT Speed Up the Learning Process

Dec 14, 2024

Introduction to the Expertise Reversal Effect

Beginners (i.e., students) learn most effectively through direct instruction.

Dec 13, 2024

Failure Modes in the Talent Development Process

The permastudent, the wannabe, and the dilettante.

Dec 12, 2024

Thoughts About Prerequisite Knowledge

Dec 12, 2024

Yes, you need to spin up on foundational knowledge. No, you are not an exception.

Even Ramanujan self-studied.

Dec 12, 2024

A Sanity Check for Effective Study Techniques

Dec 11, 2024

Active Problem-Solving is Where The Learning Happens

Comfortable fluency in consuming information is not a proxy for actual learning.

Dec 10, 2024

No Train, No Gain

Dec 10, 2024

3 Common Areas of Confusion in Talent Development

(especially in math learning)

Dec 8, 2024

Schooling vs Talent Development

Schooling and talent development are completely different things.

Dec 8, 2024

The #1 Trick for Super-Productivity

… is interleaving a wide variety of productive work that you enjoy.

Dec 8, 2024

The Best Neural Nets Textbook That I’ve Seen So Far

“Understanding Deep Learning” by Simon J. D. Prince

Dec 8, 2024

You Are a Car

Dec 8, 2024

Don’t have a passion? Go create one.

Dec 7, 2024

How To Get a Full Time Software Job During College (5-Step Roadmap)

I worked full time in data science during my last 2 years of undergrad and I’m pretty sure the process to pull this off is reproducible.

Dec 6, 2024

Prereq Yo’ Self Before You Wreck Yo’ Self

If you hammer prerequisite concepts/skills into your long-term memory, get it really solid and easy to retrieve, then you can lessen the load on your working memory, keep it below capacity, avoid getting “broken,” and keep up with the game.

Dec 5, 2024

There Are No Shortcuts in Talent Development

Dec 4, 2024

It’s not about how much you put in, it’s about how much you get out.

Dec 3, 2024

Progress is Enjoyable In Itself

Dec 3, 2024

Self-guaranteeing promises

A self-guaranteeing promise is verifiable and non-reversible. It does not require you to trust anyone.

Dec 3, 2024

Schooling and Talent Development are Completely Different Things

Dec 2, 2024

The Image I Want to Put in People’s Minds When They Think About Edtech

People acquiring impressive skills so quickly that it’s mind-bending.

Dec 2, 2024

The Vicious Cycle of Context Overload

Why jumping the gun on complexity leads to compounding struggle.

Dec 2, 2024

Actively Doing is the Key to Alpha

Lots of people consume. Fewer people actively do. Even fewer people attempt challenging things. And even fewer people than that build up the foundational skills needed to succeed in doing those challenging things.

Dec 1, 2024

The Magic You’re Looking For is in the Full-Assed Effort You’re Avoiding

When someone fails to make decent progress towards their learning or fitness goals and cites lack of time as the issue, they’re often wrong.

Nov 30, 2024

It’s Amusing How Fake Some University Syllabi Are

Nov 29, 2024

How to Get High on Math

Nov 28, 2024