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Apr 26, 2020

How do you improve your skills as a software engineer?

discussed how athletes train to hone their craft Why don't devs do this? Athletes have three advantages: 1. Immediate feedback🔁 2. Rapidly practice SPECIFIC skills🎯 3. Coaches🙋‍♂️ 🧵

Taylor Barada

@taylorbarada

Apr 29, 2020

Have been going deep on this topic in last year but focused on CEOs/Investors. Would love to explore the engineer angle further. Can you share thread links that you are referencing? Also, if you haven’t already checkout “Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise” book

Zain Rizvi

@ZainRzv

Apr 29, 2020

Nice, thanks for the recommendation This was the podcast which sparked this line of thought: perell.com/podcast/andy-m And here's more that David Perell wrote on the topic: perell.com/blog/learn-lik

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Some more in this vein…

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Woah, your notes are a gold mine The section on Evergreen Notes is especially interesting in context of

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's BASB course which I'm just finishing notes.andymatuschak.org/z4SDCZQeRo4xFE

Zain Rizvi

@ZainRzv

Apr 30, 2020

The Zettelkastenian technique of atomic, concept oriented, and densely linked notes seems highly optimized for writing BASB allows for a bit more laziness with a project oriented organization to pull relevant info front and center But those aren't incompatible ideas :)