Category: learning
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Coaching Badminton
My nephew wanted to make the badminton team of his high school. His school’s team is one of the elite badminton teams in the south bay. I have been hitting with him for the last few months, trying to identify areas where he felt he needed to improve. He already has a private coach, a…
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The Gift of Learning: Birthday Reflections on Growth
Reflecting on the gift of learning for my birthday: from coding pointers and cocoa trees to tennis and block printing. Embodying Gandhi’s advice to learn as if you were to live forever.
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link: When Things Click: The Power Of Judgment-Free Learning
Removing praise and criticism from learning. What good teacher do If a student does not learn, it’s the teacher’s fault, not the student. Brake down a skill into learnable pieces Inspire students to achieve more https://www.npr.org/2020/02/03/802422904/when-things-click-the-power-of-judgment-free-learning
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Learning via SF Public Library
Grow 1% a day, start with free resources from SF Library (or your local library) Start reading this blog article.
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Learning at Splunk via Technical books
6 offices in San Francisco, Santana Row, Vancouver, Seattle, United Kingdom, Boulder and Sydney are received 145 copies of 3 books. Pragmatic Programmer, The Code Complete & 97 Things Every Architect Should Know. Happy reading fellow engineers!
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Affecting Change
Systemic problems in our society, by definition, seem impossible to fix. Part of the reason is that systemic problems are rooted in how our lives are structured and it’s not under the control of one person, one organization or sometimes even one government. When I was doing a bit or searching around Google, there was…
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Learn Or Languish
Learn something, learn anything. Learn a new sport, learn to be better at a sport you are good at. Learn a new skill, learn to use part of your brain you seldom use. Learn to be empathetic, learn to listen to others. Learn how to love yourself more than you do at this moment. Learn…