Learning to invest in your future
Here is a list of the things I referenced in my talk “Learning to invest in your future” .
Apollo 11 missions
- 13 Minutes to the Moon. Especially Episode 2 “Kids in Control”
SpaceX learning from failure
Deliberate Practise
Models of Skills Acquisition
- Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Kolb’s experiential learning
- Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition
- Related: Dunning-Kruger effect
Hard Fun
- MIT AI lab. Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon, Marvin Minsky & others.
- Logo programming language
- Inventive Minds
Feedback Loops
- “The fundamental way to improve the learning experience” is described in Apprenticeship Patterns
Intuition
- Described by Daniel Kahneman in Thinking, Fast and Slow
Evil Wizards
- Described in The Pragmatic Programmer
Social Learning
- A great book to kick off your study group is 7 Languages in 7 Weeks
- Speaking at meetups: “if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind.” is a quote from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
- Pac-Man Rule
Reading, Listening, Watching
The examples I used were:
Not included
A few things which I wanted to include but could not fit into the time :(
- The Puzzle of Motivation, Daniel Pink
- “Everything changes and nothing stands still”, Heraclitus,
- Larry Wall’s Three Virtues of Great Programmers
- Breadth and Depth of skills T-Shaped People
- Building a learning habit: Atomic Habits, Switch