The CCAF Instructional Design Model: Engaging and meaningful learning experience requires Context, Challenge, Activity, and Feedback (CCAF…

An antilibrary is a collection of unread books reminding you how much you still don't know. Instead of being a trophy case for finished…

Teach verbs and principles instead of nouns. By teaching how things work and how they interact, we help students transform static facts into…

How to read 3X faster? Train your eyes instead of your brain to leverage peripheral vision and move faster line by line. Article: Scientific…

"I'm a visual learner" is a myth. There is no scientific evidence that tailoring instruction to learning styles can improve learning. Paper…

"I keep on making what I can’t do yet in order to learn to be able to do it." — Vincent van Gogh Quote From Van Gogh's letter To Anthon van…

Bloom's Taxonomy: Our learning objectives can be classified as a hierarchy of remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create…

To achieve learning goals, we should identify and address not just knowledge gaps but also skills, motivation, habits, environment, and…

Memory retrieval is easier when the context of recall matches the context when the memory was formed. If you learn the content underwater…

One way to tell whether you're wasting time when exploring your passion is to ask if you're producing or consuming. Article: How to Do Great…

Read fewer but better books. Deep reflection on fewer books is more valuable than consuming many books without thought. Book: Essays and…

Languages naturally evolve to be more complex in isolation but tend to simplify when more people learn it as a second language because of…

Changing study environments can significantly improve how well you remember information because environmental context is critical for memory…

Dual-coding theory: Verbal and nonverbal information are stored separately in our memory, and simultaneously processing both verbal and…

Absorbing information for our brain is like training our machine learning model of the world. Even if we forget what we've learned, the data…

When we read, the author thinks for us. We can read ourselves stupid if we just repeat the author's mental process. People who just let…

There is no knowledge in books, only information. Information only becomes knowledge after we interpret and understand it. Thought The…

The opposite of knowledge is the illusion of knowledge. The opposite of you know something is you thought you know something, not you don't…

“If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?” ADHD may stem more from an environmental mismatch than a brain problem. Book: The Ape…

Leonardo Da Vinci learned things purely out of curiosity. Not all knowledge needs to be useful. It can be pursued for pure pleasure. Book…

How Tim Ferriss identifies the next big thing? Understand what technical nerds and rich people are doing, and where people are patching…

Our twenties are about watching our dreams go up in flames and learning from the ashes. Sometimes failure is the only way to learn, and what…

Procedural knowledge tends to be retained longer than declarative knowledge in our memory. All skills start as declarative knowledge and…

Dark Room Metaphor: Learning is a process of reconstruction (Constructionism), not transmission(Instructionism). Creating our mental 3D…

Forward testing effect: Taking an exam before learning the subject can enhance future learning of that subject. Book: Ultralearning The…

Desirable Difficulty in learning: Harder retrieval leads to better learning, given retrieval is successful. Test yourself before we think we…

First step of learning: Learn directly by doing it and ensure the learning is tied to the context in which it will be used. Learn to speak a…

Learning new things is different from practicing new things. Passive learning brings knowledge while active practicing brings skills. Book…

True learning is understanding. True understanding is linking new information to existing knowledge and applying it to problems. Book: How…

Insight is the smallest unit of truth that is actionable. If you cannot act on it, it is just an abstraction. Podcast: Kunal Shah: Core…

Poker teaches us that just because people are skillful in one domain doesn't mean they can transfer the skill to another. Podcast: Annie…

“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” - Tallulah Bankhead Quote

Copying others is a good way to start. Copying yourself is a disappointing way to end. Article: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known…

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. Book: Finite and Infinite Games James Carse…

Rooms Razor: When choosing between two rooms, choose the room where you're more likely to be the dumbest one in the room. Article: The Most…

People follow incentives, not advice. Newsletter: 3-2-1: How to change someone’s mind, the balance between justice and compassion, and…

We shouldn't follow the people we most admire. Instead, we should follow what they admire. Podcast: [Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes…

"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." - Herbert Simon Quote Herbert Simon is the receiver of the Nobel Prize in…

Kids today are much more visually literate and prefer to communicate with images over text. Podcast: Eugene Wei: Compress to Impress Visual…

A teacher is never a giver of truth. A teacher is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for themselves. A good teacher…

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have." - Bob Marley Quote This also reminds me about the…

When it comes to idea generation, quantity is the most predictable path to quality. Book: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World In…

Experience is inevitable, learning is not. Book: Winning Decisions: Getting It Right the First Time Experience is knowing what happened…

"Knowledge is discovered collectively, wisdom is rediscovered individually." - Naval Quote This reminds me of what Terry Crews talked about…

The technical knowledge involved in your life will quadruple in 34 years. Book: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering It is claimed by…

"First delight, then instruct." - Karl Friedrich Schinkel Quote Karl Friedrich Schinkel, a Prussian architect, city planner, and painter, on…

Focus on "just-in-time" information instead of "just-in-case" information. Book: The 4-Hour Workweek The author Tim Ferriss adopted a low…

All progress, both theoretical and practical, has resulted from a single human activity: the quest for good explanations. Book: The…

Two reading hats: RICLS(Read for information) and REAS(read for skills). Podcast: Safi Bahcall — On Thinking Big, Curing Cancer, and…

Teachers should prepare the student for the student’s future, not for the teacher’s past. Book: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering…