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3 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
🧵 Thread of threads for January's Ship 30 for 30.
Day 0: Why I write every day
Day 1: Why you should become a professional learner.
Day 2: The principles of effective learning.

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5 Jan
Effective learning is counterintuitive.

Most learning advice in school will waste your time and effort. Making what you learn stick is simple if you know how.

My second atomic essay for #ship30for30.

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School is the worst place to learn how to learn.

It's not because of school you develop, but despite it.
Most learning methods you learn in school make sense intuitively but aren't effective.

Rereading and cramming lead to illusions of knowing; it may be enough for exams, but not to succeed in life.
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4 Jan
Become a professional learner to stay relevant in your job.

On day 1 of #Ship30for30, I make a case to look at your work through the lens of learning. In an increasingly complex world, that's the only way to thrive.

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How are you going to stay relevant in your job?

In our fast-moving world, simple and complicated problems are evaporating and replaced by complex ones. Never did companies and institutions have to solve so many challenges in so little time.
You have two options in this new reality: innovate or die.

Change has killed the knowledge worker. Knowing is no longer needed—everyone has thousands of encyclopedias in their pocket. What's needed are new insights. But insights are lacking as workers still rely on old systems.
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3 Jan
It's day 0 of @dickiebush's Ship 30 for 30.

An excellent opportunity to write my personal manifesto for why I write daily. It's always good to come up with excuses if it helps healthy habits develop.

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Writing is thinking.

Without scribbling or typing, I have few coherent thoughts. But when I focus my mind on explaining something using text, a rich mental landscape comes to life.
I've been a writer for as long as I can remember.

When I got my first PC at age six, the first program I wanted to use was the text editor. After all, I just learned to write and had stories to tell!
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20 Dec 20
Working on a newsletter edition about deliberate practice.

Deliberate practice is crucial if you want to reach expert level in any skill, but what is it, and how can it help you learn more precisely?

A thread based on @augustbradley's conversation with the late Anders Ericsson.
You can find my complete notes from the conversation in my public Roam graph:
roamresearch.com/#/app/rroudt-p…

The entire conversation is on YouTube:
The 10,000-hour 'rule' was based on Ericsson's research, but simple practice is not enough for mastery.

We need teachers and coaches to give us feedback on how we're doing to adjust our actions effectively. Technology can help us by providing short feedback loops.
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7 Dec 20
Become a learning worker by creating intermediate packets.

By narrowing the scope of my work and shipping more often, my knowledge work is more effective and valuable.

🧵 A thread with 7 reasons to create intermediate deliverables.
🔗 Link to my 2,300-word piece on the topic 👇
What are intermediate packets?

Simply put, the smallest publishable part of knowledge work.

Think outline versus email, notes versus blog post. By breaking up work into its parts and saving those, we can become much more effective.

Long version here:
ramses.blog/intermediate-p…
I create intermediate packets because they help me to:

• Provide value more often
• Become interruption-proof
• Create in any circumstance
• Stay motivated
• Help my future self
• Get more and better feedback
• Avoid heavy lifts
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30 Nov 20
To create, go from note-taking to note-making.

In week 2 of @ness_labs' phenomenal Collector to Creator course, we learned how to collect ideas, make sense of them in our specific context, and share our insights.

🧵 A thread with my key takeaways.
There are two modes of thinking:

1) Focused thinking—a conscious process of thinking around one idea.

2) Diffuse thinking—a subconscious process of thinking freely and connecting ideas.

We need both to go from note-taking (focused) to note-making (diffuse, then focused again).
For creative inspiration, we need to take time for three things:

• Ideation based on what we read, see, and experience.

• Introspection using journaling (self-reflection) and meditation.

• Idleness to allow time off from focused thinking and let diffuse thinking take over.
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