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Hyper-growth Humans: How to find growth materials and learn x2 faster @orenellenbogen

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“Software is eating the world” source: Recode Marc Andreessen, 2011

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A new economical incentive: Millions of people are getting paid to learn for their entire career. An era of Hyper-growth humans.

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“ I want to improve my skills around [X], now what? ” X: role, domain, practice or tool

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“ Don’t let your schooling get in the way of your education ” – Mark Twain With a new abundance of content, learning how to learn is a challenge.

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@orenellenbogen VP Engineering at About me?

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I’m also the maker of: SoftwareLeadWeekly.com LeadingSnowflakes.com ManagerReadme.com ~6 years Read: 14k Recommended: 2K Sharing lessons I’ve learned from my journey so far

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My 3 steps learning framework 1. Scout for relevant influencers 2. Consume content deliberately 3. Extract and retain more knowledge using growth material types

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“Show me your friends influencers and I’ll tell you who you are”

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Influencers as content lead generators Start with: - Who’s already kicking ass at this? - Unless prior familiarity, aim for companies

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Q: “How can I improve my skills as a Data Engineer?” A: ”I heard a few great talks by Airbnb’s engineers last week.” A real life example:

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The Twitters Where humans follow other humans and it’s totally fine

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Should I follow them? My rule of to validate Signal vs. Noise ratio is to browse their last 10 tweets and look for - Activity for the past 3 months - 1 educational content/reference - 1 inspirational content

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1 educational ✅ https://twitter.com/awiedmer

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1 inspirational ✅ https://twitter.com/awiedmer

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So…

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How to get the names of relevant companies? source: TechCrunch

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Or… a different way!

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Weekly newsletters e.g. datascienceweekly.org iosdevweekly.com pythonweekly.com devopsweekly.com softwareleadweekly.com ß shameless plug, I’m bad In a way, you “follow” the curator

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Weekly list! https://github.com/jondot/awesome-weekly

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Bootstrap Follow 30-40 people around your area of interest. Tips: 1 Check who they’re following. 2 Start over every 12 months. New influencers? Ask questions, share thoughts (2 way conv.) 3

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Okay, where were we? q Following relevant influencers à content leads q Consume content deliberately (x2 as fast) q Extract and retain more knowledge using growth material types

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+ learning == Procrastination will take over the bored mind

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Read many books in parallel. Focus is overrated, having fun is underrated. Read only the chapters you find interesting. The author won’t know. Write inside the book. Write even more if your handwriting is ugly. Start at the end and go back. Nobody dies, it’s safe.

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Technical reading contains a lot of White noise. Headline à 1st sentence à decide. Read less to read more.

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Improve your vocabulary Fluent recognition of word / terms is critical to speed up the way you read or listen to content. Use Anki to apply ”Spaced Repetition” Right? 1d à 3d à 1w à 1m à 6m etc. Wrong? Back to square one.

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Audio: Play with playing X2 speed (eventually) Start X1.4 for 2 min. Focus. Switch X1.2 for 2 min. Relax. Play this trick on X1.6 à X1.4, then X1.8 à X1.6 until you can do X2.

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qFollowing relevant influencers à content leads qGreat content, double the speed q Extract and retain more knowledge using growth material types Step 3, learn > consume “Words per minute is a vanity metric” – @naval

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Growth Material Types Technical content will usually help you to: (1) Gain new perspective OR (2) Learn a pragmatic tactic OR (3) Concisely frame an existing view

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New perspective e.g. “ Chaos Engineering lets you compare what you think will happen to what actually happens in your systems. You literally “break things on purpose” to learn how to build more resilient systems.

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Pragmatic tactics (Your next visit to StackOverflow) e.g. “ By wrapping time functions I can write tests that behave in a predictable way regardless of the actual system’s time

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Framing (You: 2min talk. Them: 1 sentence) e.g. “ Applying Broken Windows theory on our system means we don’t tolerate even a single failure in our tests or alerts

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“If there is a belief that the brain considers part of who we are, it turns on its self-defense mode to protect that belief.” – Jonas Kaplan Prime your for the expected growth type

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Let’s try it together with this example: Airbnb Sunsetting React Native It’s not a surprise if you thought about it first ;)

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e.g. - Did it remind me of something else? - Did it change the way I think? Why not? - Did I learn something new? Which type? Argue with the author. Argue with your beliefs. Seek new facts.

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Anchor & Distribute • Capture takeaways, don’t summarize • Use Anki to increase memory recall • Make it applicable to your team (distributed memory)

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Surround yourself with the influencers you want your future-self to be the average of @orenellenbogen Ask me anything! ß Join us, let’s work together!