The single most powerful "skill" you can develop:
Learning quickly.
But the way schools teach us to learn is a horrible way to learn in the real world.
Textbooks, worksheets, flash cards—all of it a waste.
Instead, use this simple 3-part framework to rapidly learn anything:
One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties. 🧠
“Factfulness,” by the late Hans Rosling, is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. It’s a great guide to thinking clearly about the world. Here are some of my favorite tips…
Next week I'll be offering a course at Stanford called "Readings in applied data science" — the complete syllabus is now available at https://t.co/VNbBORRItk. Thanks to everyone on twitter who has helped me find good readings!
This is emphatically *not* meant as a comment on the ethical or security issues, but political journalists tend to overrate the sophistication of what Cambridge Analytica was doing.
Yup. We got the band back together. Another season of Cosmos is officially real. “COSMOS: Possible Worlds” To air on @FOXTV & @NatGeoChannnel in a year — Spring 2019. Be there.
I think Democrats have underestimated how seriously voters are taking the Franken allegations and how hypocritical it makes them look. https://t.co/fw3xSIz59G