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@vaidehĳoshi Learning How To Learn Vaidehi Joshi

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@vaidehĳoshi one computer science topic every week for one year
(it was a long year )

@vaidehĳoshi sometimes, it was really fun

@vaidehĳoshi but a lot of the time, it was really
hard

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@vaidehĳoshi learning new things is hard extremely ^

@vaidehĳoshi how do people learn new things?

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@vaidehĳoshi artist author bongo player lock picker philosopher

@vaidehĳoshi learn and understand things

@vaidehĳoshi The Great Explainer

@vaidehĳoshi “the best teacher I never had”

@vaidehĳoshi how did he teach himself?

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@vaidehĳoshi NOTEBOOK OF THINGS I DON’T KNOW ABOUT

@vaidehĳoshi “He tried to ﬁnd the essential kernels of each
subject.”

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@vaidehĳoshi we can learn how to learn

@vaidehĳoshi Feynman Technique

@vaidehĳoshi four steps

@vaidehĳoshi identify the subject $

@vaidehĳoshi write down everything we know

@vaidehĳoshi explain it someone %who’d know nothing about the topic
&

@vaidehĳoshi plain, simple terms

@vaidehĳoshi “when we speak without jargon, it frees us from
hiding behind knowledge we don’t have.”

@vaidehĳoshi brevity

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@vaidehĳoshi identify any gaps ' where the actual learning happens!

@vaidehĳoshi organize & simplify into a narrative (

@vaidehĳoshi simple sentences for storytelling

@vaidehĳoshi “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.”

@vaidehĳoshi analogies to make the abstract more concrete

@vaidehĳoshi “gloriﬁed, high-class, very fast but stupid ﬁling system.”

@vaidehĳoshi tests our understanding, challenges our assumptions

@vaidehĳoshi you don’t know what you don’t know

@vaidehĳoshi “I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.”

@vaidehĳoshi reinforcing what we do know

@vaidehĳoshi better explainers

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@vaidehĳoshi making knowledge accessible opens doors for others

@vaidehĳoshi tech needs more great explainers

@vaidehĳoshi making knowledge accessible makes our industry more diverse

@vaidehĳoshi making knowledge accessible makes our industry more inclusive

@vaidehĳoshi learning new things is empowering

@vaidehĳoshi how can we be great explainers?

@vaidehĳoshi what if everyone was a great explainer?

@vaidehĳoshi we’ll leave the industry better than when we found
it

@vaidehĳoshi thank you! ✨

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