Cone of learning

  • Discovery

    • Great people that do intresting
      • Articles - accademic resources, mostly for articles
      • Blogs
      • Essay writings
    • obituaries
    • do you want the course or the curriculum?
  • Sources to learn sorted by (convenience & quality)

    • Your mind - never underestimate youself
      • why? wrong or right it’s going to be your unique conclusion entirely based on the context of yourself
      • Past knowledge - process&update to the new one - regularely
        • like N & L notes or discovery sections
      • Use principles & widsom - chess board playing w Predicting
    • AI - pretend it’s your free of charge mentor
      • even if quality is aurguable, it’s really fast to get answers
    • Quick search online
      • Specific sources - if searching pixelart, go to pixilart.com
      • Or general yt channels/videos
        • even in 2x it might be not productive compared to using HLL on a book/common topic w AI
      • language/culture of info is relevant
        • countries/cultures are always specialized in something
    • facts vs opinions - empirical data (higher/lower level)
    • Relationships - People
      • Mentor & reverse mentor + Relationships, not advisors
        • Any other category might not did/make what you want to make, mentors did instead, they have experience
        • it’s a combination of tutoring, coaching, and consulting
        • holistic specialized supportive role. “Best” one usually
      • Tutoring - specific for skill/offer dev + like a teacher
        • worth even for betting first 3 calls to see if budget is suffiecient for you to learn the skills to start asking people for money and get even more tutoring
        • they get paid also depending on nationality
      • Coaching - holistic & focussed on broad goal obtaining
        • Only if mentorship is off radar & already know skill/offer
      • Consulting - practical tutoring but less teaching
        • oriented on solving the problem for/with the client rather than teaching
        • like someone that do your same stuff, but is better than you.
        • He doesn’t teach like a tutor, but he has practical knowledge.
        • useful when feeling comfortable on the theory but lacking the practical and holistic implementation
      • Community&Masterminds - great support for any situation
        • networking serendipity
        • your own - start ASAP, make it a mastermind ASAP
          • then you can make it public/general for traffic
        • private -
          • less quantity but more quality people than public
            • specific interests
            • commitment
            • masterminds
            • collaboration
        • public
          • to prepare/validate yourself for private ones
          • Diversity: broad point of views
          • Wider range of resources
          • Serendipity, potential collaboration, visibility
            • because of more people
            • it’s better here to…
              • promote
              • make big events
              • gather feedback
              • send free educational content
              • Recruit asking for specific individuals
      • My evaluation
        • Mentor - best choice bcs it has the best of everything
        • Tutoring - problems specifically with the offer or skill
        • Coaching - only after having the offer or the skill
        • Consulting - don’t need a teacher, but a problem solver
        • Community - needed/useful in any scenario
      • connect the dots - holicism
      • Great resource
        • mentor, peer, mentoree, and why private communities are important
    • Pragmatism testing
      • Usually it should not be the first method you use
        • Mentors may guide you preventing you to make useles mistakes, but still makes you train on the field after doing so
      • only worth it when…
        • preparation has been needed and made
          • there might be mistakes that are destructive and should be prevented
          • if the topic it’s somethink like cooking there’s not much preparation needed because mistakes might not be as crucial
        • if you fail, the lesson you’ll learn will be really valuable
    • reading - often useless without HLL & action
      • textbooks might be better
    • Courses - cost effective non-tailored structured learning
  • focus list - sorted by quality

    • Notes - if it’s really important, it should be there
    • open browser tabs (not always so good)
    • mentors - Steal like an artist - book
      • bookmarks/e
      • courses - udemy
      • books
    • taccuino
    • Shallow work
      • p1
      • Notes/Contextual
      • go to the intrested note and search if there is “discovery” section
      • kill rss feed and saved
      • order & go trough browser saved tabs
      • p2
      • p3
      • Almost useless
        • watch saved tabs into the chrome extension
        • Inspiration in coding bookmarks (sick)
        • read articles
        • Other
          • todoist
          • Make daily extra todos
          • 1h meditate
        • check obsidian tags
        • look orphans/notes to connect
  • online sources

    • google
      • trends
      • scholar
      • yt
      • google
    • Podcasts
    • Courses
  • Archived

    • have time list - sorted by quality
      • urgent
      • taccuino
      • Notes
      • book
      • go to e bookmarks
      • Learning resources
      • p1
      • Shallow work
        • Contextual
        • go to the intrested note and search if there is “discovery” section
        • kill rss feed and saved
        • p2
        • p3
        • Almost useless
          • watch saved tabs into the chrome extension
          • Inspiration in coding bookmarks (sick)
          • read articles
          • Learning resources
          • Other
            • todoist
            • Make daily extra todos
            • 1h meditate
          • check obsidian tags
          • look orphans/notes to connect
    • old
    • sorted by personal process
      • people - mentor & Relationships

      • AI

      • Past knowledge

      • Quick research online - where the most valuable content can be found

        • Usually on Certain channels/videos on yt
        • e.g.
          • if searching pixelart bin pinterest and go to pixilart.com
      • reading

      • empirical data (higher/lower level)

      • testing

      • Learn because bored list - sorted by quality

      • mentor and Relationships

      • urgent / taccuino

      • intentionally doing research preferring AI

      • testing

      • p1

      • search empirical data (higher/lower level)

      • reading

      • p2

      • Inspiration in coding bookmarks (sick)

      • go to e bookmarks

      • p3

      • watch saved tabs into the chrome extension

      • kill rss feed and saved

      • read articles

      • Learning resources

      • check obsidian tags

      • look orphans/notes to connect

      • Other

        • Make daily extra todos
        • todoist
        • 1h meditate