Presented at Agile Cambridge 2014
October2014The law oflearning entropy
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Are you paidexclusively to learn?
#NoLearning
I cannot teach anybodyanything. I can only makethem thinkSocrates
For the correct analogy forthe mind is not a vessel thatneeds filling but wood thatneeds igniting.Plutarch
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Primed Deliberate Validatedƾƾƾ
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ƾ Lord Anson
ƾ James Lind
ƾ James Cook
ƾ HMS Endeavour
ƾ#NoLearning
ƾ Ignaz Semmelweis
ƾSemmelweis reflex
In spite of their conceptualand mathematical elegance,functional programminglanguages never caught onfor commercial software.Kent Beckƾ
It is impossible for anyoneto begin to learn that whichhe thinks he already knows.Epictetusƾ
ƾ• Primed• Prepared• Planned
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ƾDeliberate Practice
Mihály Csíkszentmihályiƾ
ƾFlow
Mastery of the knowledgealone isn’t sufficientAndy Huntƾ
ƾKolb Learning Cycle
Whatever you would makehabitual, practice it; and ifyou would not make a thinghabitual, do not practice it,but accustom yourself tosomething else.Epictetusƾ
You want to do it – do it.You want to stop doing itDo something else.Epictetusƾ
Validatedƾ
confirmation biasƾ
Dunning–Krugereffectƾ
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Whathave youchanged?ƾ
The Lawof Learning Entropy
If you've done somethingwith what you've learned,then maybe you know it.Seth Godin
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