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Learning How To Learn
Vaidehi Joshi
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one computer science topic
every week
for one year
(it was a long year )
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sometimes, it was really fun
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but a lot of the time,
it was really hard
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learning new things is hard
extremely
^
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how do people learn new things?
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artist
author
bongo player
lock picker
philosopher
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learn and understand things
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The Great Explainer
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“the best teacher I never had”
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how did he teach himself?
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NOTEBOOK OF THINGS
I DON’T KNOW ABOUT
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“He tried to find the
essential kernels of
each subject.”
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we can learn how to learn
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Feynman Technique
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four steps
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identify the subject
$
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write down everything we know
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explain it someone
%who’d know nothing
about the topic &
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plain, simple terms
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“when we speak without jargon,
it frees us from hiding behind
knowledge we don’t have.”
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brevity
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identify any gaps
'
where the actual
learning happens!
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organize & simplify
into a narrative
(
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simple sentences for storytelling
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“all things are made from atoms—little
particles that move around in perpetual
motion, attracting each other when they
are a little distance apart, but repelling
upon being squeezed into one another.”
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analogies to make the
abstract more concrete
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“glorified, high-class, very fast
but stupid filing system.”
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tests our understanding,
challenges our assumptions
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you don’t know what you don’t
know
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“I’m smart enough to know that
I’m dumb.”
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reinforcing what we do know
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better explainers
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making knowledge accessible
opens doors for others
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tech needs more great explainers
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making knowledge accessible
makes our industry more diverse
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making knowledge accessible
makes our industry more inclusive
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learning new things is empowering
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how can we be great explainers?
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what if everyone was a
great explainer?
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we’ll leave the industry better
than when we found it
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thank you! ✨