Mental Model: Tome.gg and Transfer learning
If you have been following my blog, you would know that I love learning. I love learning so much, that I find myself drawn to… Read More »Mental Model: Tome.gg and Transfer learning
Mental models
Concepts and abstractions that help communicate the way we perceive and understand the world.
Mental Model: Direction Is Yours
If you don’t choose a direction for yourself, someone else will pick it for you. Someone else will also tell you what is right and… Read More »Mental Model: Direction Is Yours
Mental Model: Do a shitty job
Stop being a perfectionist. Just put in the work, and put yourself out there. Get feedback and evaluate yourself respectfully, truthfully, and briefly. Then, get… Read More »Mental Model: Do a shitty job
Direction, Strategy, Tactics, and Execution
Asking questions in the right order improves problem solving. Do we know what we want? How do we want to do it? What works for… Read More »Direction, Strategy, Tactics, and Execution
Trading cards and Deck building: A mental model for opportunities and activities
When playing a trading card game, how many cards are you able to take per turn from your deck? How many different decks do you… Read More »Trading cards and Deck building: A mental model for opportunities and activities
The past, the present, the future me
Treating my past, present, and future selves as individuals that I interact with directly helps me optimize my life: increase happiness, reduce regrets, address laziness,… Read More »The past, the present, the future me
Being human, wise, clever, and hardworking
There were only a few hours left until the culminating tech presentation my team and I were preparing for. I find myself grinding out the… Read More »Being human, wise, clever, and hardworking
The broken bicycle
The mental model of the broken bicycle is from a personal story of mine that identifies conditioning that was instilled while one was younger, triggering… Read More »The broken bicycle
Numeracy and Scale
I think that story telling is an excellent way to introduce mathematical concepts applied in real life scenarios. I think that it is an effective… Read More »Numeracy and Scale
Mental Model: Prioritization and Learning
Over the course of a few years of programming, I’ve noticed myself grow incrementally, from simply trying to make things work, to learning to do… Read More »Mental Model: Prioritization and Learning