Category: Learning
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Learning to Draw, Day 10: Negative Space
Read more…: Learning to Draw, Day 10: Negative SpaceToday I had to draw a chair, but not in the usual way. Instead of drawing the lines and shapes that make up the chair, I had to draw the negative space instead. I didn’t take a photo or use the plastic pane very much, but drew from looking at the chair and occasionally using…
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Learning to Draw, Day 9: Hand with Object
Read more…: Learning to Draw, Day 9: Hand with ObjectI repeated yesterday’s exercise, but this time with a fountain pen in my hand, cap on. It took me about an hour. I still don’t quite get the shading, but it is becoming easier to zoom in on details and lines.
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Learning to Draw, Day 8: My First “Real” Drawing
Read more…: Learning to Draw, Day 8: My First “Real” DrawingToday I did my first “real” drawing. Not a trace, not an upside down copy, but an actual drawing. I focused with one eye on my hand and drew the lines and curves the best I could. I still don’t really know what to do with shadows, highlights, etc, but I’m pretty pleased with my…
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Learning to Draw, Day 7: Tracing a Foreshortened Hand on a Plane
Read more…: Learning to Draw, Day 7: Tracing a Foreshortened Hand on a PlaneToday I did an exercise to help see like an artist sees: Using a plastic viewfinder to create a flat plane, resting it on my hand, and then using a non-permanent marker to trace all of the edges. (Reminder: In drawing, an edge is where any two areas meet, not just an outline.) I did this…
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Listening Notes: Invisibilia – Emotions Part One
Read more…: Listening Notes: Invisibilia – Emotions Part OneLink to episode: https://overcast.fm/+D88LXtYzQ Emotions don’t happen to us, they are responses to things that happen to us. In fact, we don’t respond directly to the things that happen to us, but rather we respond to our concept of what happens. We don’t directly respond to the outside world, we respond to our mind’s interpretation…
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Learning to Draw, Day 6: Pure Contour Exercise
Read more…: Learning to Draw, Day 6: Pure Contour ExerciseToday I read a section on childhood drawings and then did another exercise to help me shift my perception: Pure Contour Drawing. I put my pencil on the paper pad, scrunched my hand together, turned so I couldn’t see the paper, and then tried my best to draw the creases I saw in my hand…
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Listening Notes: Venkatesh Rao on The Three Types of Decision Makers, Mental Models, and How to Process Information | The Knowledge Podcast
Read more…: Listening Notes: Venkatesh Rao on The Three Types of Decision Makers, Mental Models, and How to Process Information | The Knowledge PodcastListening Notes for Venkatesh Rao on The Three Types of Decision Makers, Mental Models, and How to Process Information | The Knowledge Podcast Link to the podcast: https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2016/02/venkatesh-rao-decision-making/ Types of Decision Makers Evidence-based Moral (right vs wrong) Tribal (emotional/affiliation decision-making) Staying grounded in reality by maintaining cracks in your mental models. (Note: I first need to codify my…
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Documenting the Process of Data Visualizations
Read more…: Documenting the Process of Data VisualizationsThe DataSketch.es project has awesome process documentation for how Nadieh and Shirley go about making their incredible visualizations each month. This is a treasure trove of valuable insights for how they approach projects, how the projects evolve, and how they overcome issues they run in to.
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Ideas for WordPress Projects
Read more…: Ideas for WordPress ProjectsA la James Altucher’s Ten Ideas a Day Implementing microformats into a theme Make a Timeline Builder plugin Make a book review custom post type and template Export WordPress posts and import them into Day One Tutorials explaining typical WordPress structure Persistent to-do list posts Plugin or custom post type for documenting learning Reduce database calls with hardcoding…
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Learning and Perception
Read more…: Learning and PerceptionDeconstructing and seeing things in different ways is often the first step toward understanding something new. Learning to view things as an artist does is critical to learning how to draw. Breaking down a website’s layout into basic HTML elements gives you a clearer idea about how your browser interprets and translates them into what…
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JavaScript Learning Project Ideas
Read more…: JavaScript Learning Project IdeasA la James Altucher’s Ten Ideas a Day Daily quote feature with quotes from the Leonard Read Almanac. Build a searchable page to go along with the almanac. Realtime search by date and topic. Musicfor.work – take people’s Spotify inputs, sanitize, save, and display. Basic first, categories later. Cocktail visualizations Page that shows window width,…
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Energy Management
Read more…: Energy ManagementNotes from The Productivity Show | Why Time Management Doesn’t Work & Why You Should Focus on Energy Instead (TPS142) The best time management system is worthless if you don’t have the energy to work on it. Energy has four components: Physical Emotional Mental Spiritual You need dedicated recovery time in each of these areas. …
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What to Do When You Mess Up
Read more…: What to Do When You Mess UpOwn up to it and take responsibility for it. Fix it immediately. Put a system in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Could be a checklist, could be checks by multiple coworkers before something goes out, etc. Whatever works best for you and your team. Remember that feeling bad about it helps keep…
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Want to learn to program? Actually building things is the best way to learn. Here is a great list of projects that you can complete in popular languages: https://github.com/tuvttran/project-based-learning
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The struggle of reading non-fiction is cutting through the filler quickly and determining what is unique and useful out of hundreds of pages. So many books are much longer than they need to be.
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How I Read and Take Notes
Read more…: How I Read and Take NotesView at Medium.com
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Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See
Read more…: Inge Druckrey: Teaching to SeeAwesome video on design thinking:
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Takeaways from this week’s Breaking Smart newsletter, Betting the Spread on Inexorables: Try multiple ultra short-term bets around a shared assumption. Don’t stick with something you don’t find valuable just so you “aren’t a quitter.” Constantly question whether or not the next step is what will produce the best results. Bet the spread, then switch…