Jamie,

What things have you noticed about the "forcing yourself/not forcing
yourself" situation that happens when many folks get involved in personal
augmentation?

Ideally augmentation feels flowy and fun, which can be elusive when we
codify something into a routine.

Powerful stuff you're imagining,

-Chance

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 3:05 PM Jamie D <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Apologies, Gregg, if this breaks the rules. I forgot where to find rules.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone is studying the following
>
> *Data science and machine learning - jupiter, numpy, python
> *Python general programing
> *JavaScript general
> *Node-Express (and in my case PostgreSQL, for an app I've been writing
> about for years)
>
> I'm also working with my Muse headband to measure frontal asymmetry, since
> I've just learned that's a good measure of valence.
>
> Ideally, I'd also fit in my day a few pomodoro's of these topics:
> -Neuroscience
> -Statistics, linear algebra
> -Physics and information theory
>
> I dream of a military-style community for personal augmentation, based on
> the psychology of learning, creativity, effective group intelligence,
> health, fitness, and always staying up to date and flexible with new
> discoveries.
>
> By myself, especially during quarantine in SF, I've been having a hard
> time finding people who care about these.
>
> So far I found one person to meet and study from 3-6pm, just Node, and I'm
> posting around to find the right people to form a learning group, where we
> use our commitments to showing up to support the routine.
>
> The way I see it, everything we need to learn is online, and all schools
> offer is community support (with a ton of drag) so if people could decide
> what they want to learn, and they understood the psychology of learning,
> they could optimize their own routine.
>
> I'll list some useful learning principles:
>
> 1) goldilocks zone - not too hard nor boring, but just right for
> exponential progress towards mastery. Anyone can learn anything, but might
> have a more narrow goldilocks zone for learning quantum physics, easier to
> slip off.
>
> 2) focus vs diffuse learning (ideally, switch back and forth as optimally
> as possible. Don't neglect either - Best ideas come in diffuse, but long
> term memory of abstract concepts comes from deep focus and recall)
>
> 3) Anki forgetting curve - recall, recall, recall, just when about to
> forget, and soon remember forever.
>
> 4) fluid vs crystallized intelligence - fluid is like working memory, can
> only be increased via exercise and rest, whereas crystallized intelligence
> is what combines, recombines exponentially as the basis of cultural
> evolution and subject mastery.
>
> 5) the bottom line - you don't know shit unless you can teach, create, or
> do, and these should be the way you recall.
>
> Please let me know if I missed anything crucial.
>
> Jamie
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