I’ve had a draft sitting in my posts section for months about shallow, deep, and transfer learning. Just made a Twitter thread that gets at the basics. And figured I’d post here to gauge interest in a longer post with examples.
Love kindle, love Evernote. But never highlight good ideas. It’s level one reading. Instead use written notes and link important ideas to previous concepts you know.
Level 1: What’s important? What does this mean?
Level 2: How does this link to compare/contrast to previous concepts or experiences? Do I believe this?
Level 3: How is this a metaphor for seemingly unrelated concepts? How can this frame my thinking?
4 questions to get to level 2:
How is this similar to other things I know?
How is this different from other things I know?
What previous experiences can I relate this to?
In what circumstances would I use this knowledge? How would I use it?
3 Questions to ask to get to level 3:
How does it feel to view the world through this lens?
I notice that this all makes perfect sense but that I don’t expect to use it that much.
Which I think is more of a failure of my part to set up my life such that I can be using my “deliberate effort” brain while reading. I mostly do reading in the evening when I’m tired (where the base-situation was “using facebook or something”, and I was trying to at least get extra value out of my dead brain state)
Currently my “deliberate effort” hours go into coding, and writing. This seems probably bad, but it feels like a significant sacrifice to do less of either. Mrr.
Note this this mostly doesn’t feel like deliberate effort anymore now that it’s a habit for me. It took maybe 3 months of it being deliberate effort, but now my mind just automatically notices something important while I’m learning and asks “what is this related to?”
I haven’t checked if reading is more tiring than before, but I also haven’t noticed anything to that effect.
That all makes sense – once the habit is ingrained I wouldn’t expect it to be deliberate effort per se (but, would still require me to make time for this that isn’t ‘right before I go to sleep while lying in bed’)
I’ve had a draft sitting in my posts section for months about shallow, deep, and transfer learning. Just made a Twitter thread that gets at the basics. And figured I’d post here to gauge interest in a longer post with examples.
Love kindle, love Evernote. But never highlight good ideas. It’s level one reading. Instead use written notes and link important ideas to previous concepts you know.
Level 1: What’s important? What does this mean?
Level 2: How does this link to compare/contrast to previous concepts or experiences? Do I believe this?
Level 3: How is this a metaphor for seemingly unrelated concepts? How can this frame my thinking?
4 questions to get to level 2:
How is this similar to other things I know?
How is this different from other things I know?
What previous experiences can I relate this to?
In what circumstances would I use this knowledge? How would I use it?
3 Questions to ask to get to level 3:
How does it feel to view the world through this lens?
How does this explain everything?
What is this a metaphor for?
I notice that this all makes perfect sense but that I don’t expect to use it that much.
Which I think is more of a failure of my part to set up my life such that I can be using my “deliberate effort” brain while reading. I mostly do reading in the evening when I’m tired (where the base-situation was “using facebook or something”, and I was trying to at least get extra value out of my dead brain state)
Currently my “deliberate effort” hours go into coding, and writing. This seems probably bad, but it feels like a significant sacrifice to do less of either. Mrr.
Note this this mostly doesn’t feel like deliberate effort anymore now that it’s a habit for me. It took maybe 3 months of it being deliberate effort, but now my mind just automatically notices something important while I’m learning and asks “what is this related to?”
I haven’t checked if reading is more tiring than before, but I also haven’t noticed anything to that effect.
That all makes sense – once the habit is ingrained I wouldn’t expect it to be deliberate effort per se (but, would still require me to make time for this that isn’t ‘right before I go to sleep while lying in bed’)