Greg McKeown on thinking in term of "What trade-offs will I make?"
vutran | Sept. 26, 2020, 6:14 p.m.
"Stop thinking “How can I do it all?” Instead, choose the problem you’d focus on, and ask “What trade-offs will I make?” and “How can I go really big on this?” See trade-offs not as losses but as opportunities to find the highest-impact options."
— Greg McKeown in Essentialism
Greg McKeown on the fact of trade-offs
vutran | Sept. 26, 2020, 6:13 p.m.
"Trade-offs are a fact of life. You can do anything but not everything."
— Greg McKeown in Essentialism
Daniel Pink on the elusiveness of mastery
vutran | Sept. 26, 2020, 6:11 p.m.
“The joy is in the pursuit more than the realization.
In the end, mastery attracts precisely because mastery eludes.”
— Daniel Pink in Drive
Read More →On Knowledge Management
vutran | Sept. 26, 2020, 5:29 p.m.
1. Collect the dots
Daily knowledge enjoying through Audible, Blinkist, Reading Graphics, Amazon books, LinkedLearning/Pluralsight courses
2. Connect the dots
80% of information absorbed will slip away, daily review is needed at some spaced repetition system e.g. Readwise, MarginNote, Anki.
3. Apply the dots
Apply the newly acquired knowledge is the first return on investment of learning, aquiring knowledge for the sake of learning is great, but with practicality orientation is even better.
4. Strategizing the dots
From the trials and errors, experiences collected, arm the experience with good tooling, automation e.g. Omnifocus for Getting Things Done, Keyboard Maestro for muscle memory, Habitica for habit formation.
5. Intuiting the dots
Acquire 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, roughly 4 hours daily in 10 years.
— Be Better, to be updated 6-weekly
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My playful engineering knowledge acquisition stragegy
vutran | Sept. 26, 2020, 4:54 p.m.
Bootstrapping
1. Get an overview of the landscape to know the unknowns
2. Set a playful goal, with clear success criteria
3. Filter the learning resources by 80/20 rule using the goal as direction
Repeat these steps iterations
4. Learn enough to get started
5. Tinkering with the newly acquired knowledge
6. Share / teach what learned
7. Aim higher
— Be Better, to be updated 6-weekly
Read More →Ann Landers on opportunities in infancy disguised as hard word
vutran | Sept. 19, 2020, 6:39 p.m.
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”
— Ann Landers
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