How to think well and understand things - by Kasra
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notes on independent learning
Buy my new book! My mom says it’s great My favorite pastime is trying to understand things. Give me a textbook and I will gladly spend months bathing in the ideas, diagrams, and explanations therein, soaking up all the knowledge I can squeeze into my little sponge brain. I want to answer the big questions and uncover the workings of the world, and I don’t want to be thwarted by concepts that are difficult to understand. The notes below are motivated by the question of “how to get better at understanding”, or how to learn a new subject independently (something which I’ve done here and…
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