[StarCon] Learning How To Learn

A good education can take many different shapes, sizes, forms. Oftentimes, the most profound educations don’t even happen in a classroom. And yet, they all seem to have one thing in common: they teach you how to learn. Being able to learn new things is an empowering skills, especially for those of us working in the ever-changing, fast-paced tech industry. But how can we teach ourselves this skill? Together, we’ll explore one of the world’s most well-known and deeply-loved techniques and see how we can each use it to learn many new things—tech-related or not!

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   Learning How To Learn
   Vaidehi Joshi
   

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   (we’re hiring!)
   

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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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    part of a larger problem
    

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    learning new things is hard
    extremely
    ^
    

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    how did other people learn new
    things?
    

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    make the best resources
    for the most people
    

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    artist
    author
    bongo player
    lock picker
    philosopher
    

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    I mean….
    talk about learning new things!
    

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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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    The Feynman Technique
    

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    four steps
    

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    identifying the
    subject
    %
    

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    write down everything we know
    

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    explaining it to
    & someone who knows
    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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    we understand something just
    because we know the words for it
    

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    get to the heart of a concept
    

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    brevity
    

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    identifying any gaps
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    where the actual learning happens!
    

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    organizing & simplifying
    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! ✨
    basecs.org
    

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    medium.com/baseds
    

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