Self-Study
Strategies
Look up college course reading lists.
Find the top performers in the field and study them.
Take advantage of resources provided by public and university libraries in your area, such as free access to Lynda.com and academic databases.
Use a service like Beeminder or StickK to commit to putting in the effort.
Have a public place where you publish regular updates on your progress. (Beemind this, too!)
Take and publish notes.
Incremental Reading
Incremental reading - Wikipedia
Incremental reading - supermemo.guru
A Guide to Incremental Reading for Students and Continuous Learners | Polar
POLAR - Read. Learn. Never Forget. | POLAR - Read. Learn. Never Forget.
Incremental reading - SuperMemo Help
SuperMemo’s Incremental Reading: Explained – Master How To Learn
SuperMemo® - learn languages effectively | SuperMemo.com
Ranking Criteria
Rank potential topics based on criteria
Practical. Will what I learn be immediately applicable?
Forward-looking. Will what I learn move me towards the work I want to be doing in the future?
Valuable. Will people pay me to do what I learn?
Synergetic. Will what I learn complement what I already know?
Ingredients
Clear goals
What do I want to be able to do by the end of each course of self-study? Make it concrete and measurable.
Study the experts
Most influential books on the topic
Material by the most influential experts on the topic
Material used in the best courses on the topic
Capture
Take notes on reading
Accountability
Create Beeminder goals specific to the current course of self-study
Post updates to a thread on the Beeminder forum
Deliverables
Course outline
Reading notes
Chapter summaries
Book summaries
Final project
Tools
Anki - "Powerful, intelligent flash cards. Remembering things just became much easier."
GitBook
Notion
RemNote - "Organize your thinking. Master your craft. Grow your knowledge."
Roam
Thought Saver - "Learn. Remember. Instantly create flashcards from anything interesting that you hear or read online. Receive quick, automated quizzes so that you never forget important ideas. Quickly discover new, fascinating and life changing ideas you've never seen before!"
Sources
Brilliant - "Math and science done right. Master key ideas in math, science, and computer science through problem solving."
GoodReads
Lynda.com
Project Gutenberg - "Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education."
SkillShare - "Thousands of classes to fuel your creativity and career."
Zenva Academy - "Trusted by 400,000+ learners and developers, Zenva provides world-class training on in-demand programming skills."
Inbox
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design #book
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software #book
Knowt #app #webapp - "An app that uses machine learning to automatically turn your notes into review quizzes." #ios #android
Mastering Regular Expressions #book
Programming Pearls #book
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