The Campfire Butler Effect
5/28/2025
o3 came up with this term during brainstorming for a piece about spending the AI productivity gains on fitness. Whenever I see AI coin a new term itself I like to document it.
“Campfire Butler” isn’t an established term—yet....
Read More →Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel
3/7/2025Rating: 4/5
Our individual and societal beliefs and habits about learning are often wrong. The [[illusion of competence]] is commonplace. Reading without trying to recall is the default practice, even though it’s extremely inefficient. Almost no one even knows about [[Spaced Repetition Learning]].
This book tri...
Read More →Mind Mapping by Kam Knight
3/7/2025Rating: 1/5
I don’t know why I bought this as an audiobook, it was a terrible idea. I suspect it would be better in print, but it’s still not a well-written book. Just follow some online tutorials.
Read More →A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley
3/6/2025Rating: 5/5
A Mind for Numbers
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley offers practical strategies for learning difficult subjects, especially in STEM fields....
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