[6] December Book – Flatland #reading #books
- Hồi lâu mình cũng đã có 1 bài viết về Flatland, nhưng đó là review của bộ phim hoạt hình. Bạn có thể xem bài viết ở đây. Bộ phim khiến mình rất thích thú.
- Về sách, thì review trên goodreads không được tốt như mong đợi (~3.81⁄5) so với những cuốn khác (hầu hết đều trên 4.0/5).
- Review trong blog post trên nêu bật được nội dung chính, và khiến mình thấy hấp dẫn. Ah, có một điểm cần lưu ý đối với độc giả non-native English speaker: cuốn này văn phong chắc sẽ khó nhai chút xíu, vì nó được viết khá lâu rồi (1800s).
[5] Learning faster as an entrepreneur #learning #methodology
- The mainstream point of the author is that we don’t need to fully understand pieces of a field. Instead of step-by-step learning, we could also just acquire 80% of a field (compenent enough) to significantly reduce the time needed.
(1) Finding. Make use of available solutions.
(2) Skimming. General idea first, don’t dive into details unless you need it.
(3) Retaining. Recognition is easier than recall. Note taking is necessary to recover the learned material. Use it in combination with spaced repitition.
(4) Organizing. It takes time to absore new concepts. Don’t try to grasp them all at once.
[4] Last days in Vietnam #history #war
- This documentary really touched my heart. We all know that history is written by the winners. I would not argue how much it was twisted. The chaos of the evacuation was horrible.
[3] The Three Levels of Software: Why code that never goes wrong can still be wrong #software-engineering
- The post starts with defining general terms in different levels of conceptualization. The 3 different ways of understanding what it means to be wrong results in different approaches to tackle a problem. If you identify a problem and understand it, you half-way solving it.
[2] The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall - Konrad H. Jarausch #history #war
[1] Overcoming Imposter Syndrome #advice
- I came to know this phenomenon when I took a video lecture on Coursera. In the video, Christine, the course instructor, mentioned Vanessa’s case as an example of this syndrome… Vanessa was the first one in her family made it to college. She was admitted to a really selective university. Not long after starting her first year, she was devastated due to failing a test. She called her mom for consolidation and received a reply like:
“Maybe you just weren’t meant to be there. Maybe we should have sent you to a junior college first.”
- → This syndrome is not only from your internal feelings but also from external beliefs people impose on you.