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[Weekend Drop] swyx on Productivity and leverage

The Swyx Mixtape

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How to Increase Your Big L Progression

A person who just learns a new thing every single year and materially improves in a linear fashion, right? Like 10 years in, you're twice as good as you were five years in. If you form a community around the thing that you're trying to learn and you actively engage with the community, you actually learn as a function of the square of the number of nodes in that community. This is very classic Metcalfe's law type of formulation which is the fastest possible way of learning. And I think a lot of people will view the form of learning that I'm talking about as purely reading stuff. But you can only get so much out of our stuff because we don't write

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