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Insightful thoughts on how an asynchronous writing culture can support better cooperation, collaboration and decision-making.
#175: Shreyas Doshi: Better Teams, Better Products

Making Decisions using a writing culture: Balancing Perspectives and Reaching Consensus

3min
AI Key Takeaways
@richard
Taking time to think and reflect on our activities and the information and experiences we are exposed to is critical for learning. #reflectivepractice
#286 Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger

Think to Grow Wise

3min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Wisdom lies in prevention, and it can be gained by reading and thinking.
  • Buffett and Munger insist on a lot of time being available to sit and think, which allows them to make quick decisions.
  • Most people schedule themselves like a dentist, which prevents them from having time to think.
@richard
#164 Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success

Importance of Consistently Identifying the Most Important Thing

1min
AI Key Takeaways
@richard
#writing Write consistently. Keep practising. It's difficult.
#164 Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success

Writing advice: Embrace the difficulty and write about what you care about

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Great writers write every day even if it's difficult for them
  • Choose topics that you actually care about instead of writing what you think someone else will find interesting
  • The best writers do multiple drafts and versions before producing great content
@richard
#ChatGPT can do mediocre and better. So our #writing has to be better than mediocre.
#164 Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success

How to focus more on raising the quality of your writing

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • To be successful, a product must be 10x better and fundamentally change the experience rather than just being a little better
  • Consumers are divinely discontent and even amazing products can become the new normal
  • Reading written work out loud can help improve its quality and demonstrate the quality of thinking.
@richard
Makes me think of how people behave at work. Is knowledge sharing done more freely in times of abundance vs times of scarcity e.g. potential job loss
#164 Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success

Human behaviour changes when abundance turns to scarcity

1min
AI Key Takeaways
@richard
Self confidence is really important in learning. School tends to provide a self-image of learners that determines their future learning ability.
CM 233: Daniel Willingham on Smarter Ways to Learn

Impression of self in learning

3min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Self-confidence is important for learners but often overlooked. Early negative self-images as a learner can persist into adulthood. Examining one's own feelings about learning can be beneficial.
@richard
I don't agree this THE 'way' to read, but it's a useful strategy sometimes. Good non-fiction has narrative that builds up through a book, bit by bit.
#18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher

Reading to gather ideas

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • The author missed the impact of blogs on their reading habits,.
  • The Kindle and iBooks made it easier to read books without feeling guilty about not finishing them.
@richard
Some deep philosophical thoughts on #ai #futureofwork and #chatgpt - why would we create machines that taking meaning away from human work?
#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development

Generative AI is Taking the Meaning Away from Some Beloved Jobs

5min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Automation technologies like GPT-4 can replace jobs people truly enjoy
  • Some people argue that automation will only replace dangerous and tedious work, but this isn't always the case
  • There are still many jobs that automation can replace beyond just dangerous and tedious work
@richard
Why #AI won't reduce jobs... if there's more intelligence and capacity available, people will just want more. Interesting concept and suggestion
Intelligence Superabundance

The Jevons Paradox of Energy

3min
AI Key Takeaways
@richard
Use physical triggers to make sure you remember key things #memorystrategy
CM 233: Daniel Willingham on Smarter Ways to Learn

Hack your memory - make sure you don't forget

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Perspective memory refers to situations where you are planning and you're thinking, oh, I want to be sure that I remember to do thus and so.
  • The typical thing to do is not to rely completely on your memory, but instead to make up a plant an external memory.
  • In the case of remembering gas at a specific example, I'll do something in my car so that when I open my car and look and get in, I'll say, why is that there? You know, like I'll put all if I have like a packet tissues or something in the glove box, I'll put them in the middle of my seat.
@richard
Highlighting text when #readingtolearn is usually quite unproductive, especially if you're a novice in the subject. #learningstrategies #selfdirec
CM 233: Daniel Willingham on Smarter Ways to Learn

Drawbacks to highlighting text when reading

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Students are inconsistent in how they highlight text.
  • Boldface or highlighting by the author makes the text more noticeable to students.
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