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recent bookmarks from jerrykingYour life should be on an accelerated learning curve2023-09-15T16:33:06+00:00
https://www.hottakes.space/p/your-life-should-be-on-an-accelerated
jerryking>Everyone knows compounding financials is powerful (yet still most don't do anything). Even more so is education, and thanks to the internet, this is free...<<
"“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” —Benjamin Franklin
throughout life, if you want to unlock the complete puzzle, you should be on an accelerated (compounding) learning curve......it’s the opposite of how most people live..........if you follow the normal path, you gain education in a structured setting while young and use that as the basis for a career. You continue to learn things, advance and grow – sure. But it’s growth as a byproduct of your experiences and fairly linear. That’s important too but by itself is not a consciously accelerated path. I believe an accelerated path is more than possible: >>intersectionality<< is real and the more areas you explore the more interesting connections you’ll make...........A majority of individuals, whether in structured settings or during their careers, don’t consciously put themselves on an accelerated learning curve..........Some are lucky and find mentorship. Most of us are on our own. But an accelerated learning track is exactly what you should be on. Everything is more fun, fulfilling and meaningful this way........first realize something and heavily internalize it: **you know nothing** [i.e. = "blank slate"]. This is mostly the opposite of what we’re conditioned for in educational institutions, where a big part of the credentialism of modern academia, consciously or not, is to instill a sense of superiority: at best so you’ve got some confidence but at worst (generally happens at ‘brand’ institutions) it breeds smugness................only when you realize you do know nothing is your mind ready for accelerated learning. When you live life thinking you have all the answers your mind is closed and unreceptive.
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” —Sydney J. Harris
Approaching situations with the mindset that you know nothing is powerful as you enter them objectively, not subjectively. Our egos are not in the way. And an objective, measured (first principles) mindset is necessary for learning. When you always bias first to a subjective mindset you have already lost most chances for learning
Here are some specific next steps you could take to put yourself on an accelerated learning curve.
**Quit your job…if**
Overall, you need to be in a role that nurtures an accelerated learning curve, especially while young...... The whole idea of an accelerated learning curve is you cannot be stagnating......
** Engage in independent learning**
learning while at work or from others, you need to also be learning on your own. This is an opportunity to get out of your vertical and become exposed to others. Interesting results always happen at the intersection and again I can’t understate the importance of intersectionality. Read blogs, books and case studies on new areas. Explore the internet and libraries. Get books online and in local shops. Take MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Listen to podcasts and watch vlogs on subjects you know nothing about. Read research reports. Don’t close yourself off to knowledge because it is in formats of media that are unfamiliar........in most areas of learning, there is always a “next step” with data or ideas you take in. But not all learning should necessarily be like this especially if nurturing cross-domain creativity is desired
**Connect with others both digitally and in person**
In Richard Florida’s book, Who’s Your City,.... the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life. That’s because you need to be surrounded by others who motivate and push you to higher levels of success. Equally important, >>learning from others<< in 1-1 or small group situations presents opportunities far beyond that of larger classrooms. Developing these types of relationships is an integral step to being on an accelerated learning curve.
** You should make art**
art is something that anyone can and should create. It is not limited to those who society deems creative.....We’re all innately creative, and all of us are potentially artists. It is not a unique skill set to individuals, it’s unique to our species. You either decide to nurture this ability or you don’t. And to exercise your mind in this way taps into an area that otherwise lays dormant. Creating art is actively learning.
**Document your progress**
fit something like blogging into a busy life. Documenting thoughts/lessons learned/creative ideas in a physical, public format forces you to organize them [i.e. = "organize your thinking"] and provides a future reference point......this allows you to build on ideas as you move forward..... in a sense like going to the gym for your brain. **People who >>write well<<, think well.**
**Teach/mentor others**
every time I give >>knowledge transfer<< to someone else [i.e. = "Protégé Effect"], I find it helps my own growth too. It’s win-win – you help encourage someone new and concurrently you’re forced to articulate your processes, tips, tricks and strategies to someone else real-time. When you do this, it causes you to analyze and reflect on them in a different way than you normally do. In time, it helps you refine them.
**Wrapping up…**
it’s highly worth considering how you can put yourself on a path of continued, accelerated learning throughout life.
]]>accelerated_lifecycles Benjamin_Franklin blank_slate blogging continuous_learning documentation education generalists intersectionality in-person invest_in_yourself learning_curves life_long_learning life_skills MOOCs organize_your_thinking protégé_effect relationships Richard_Florida self-education learning_from_others compounding_knowledge knowledge_transfers writing_wellhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3ab1c79013e3/How Data Is Reshaping Real Estate2021-11-11T18:35:26+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/business/data-tracking-real-estate.html
jerrykingartificial_intelligence brands cameras cashierless commercial_real_estate data data_collection data_mining de-risking entertainment_industry foot_traffic in-person in-store location_based_services personal_data Placer.ai privacy real_estate retailers sensors shopping_habits sports stadiums start_ups tools tracking convenience_stores venueshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:42f81a474f19/Opinion | My Years on Wall Street Showed Me Why You Can’t Make a Deal on Zoom - The New York Times2021-08-17T16:37:05+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/opinion/covid-wall-street-delta-office.html
jerryking>apprenticeship<< businesses. They are akin to the Florentine guilds of the Renaissance, in which the subtleties and intricacies of art and science were absorbed over many years through careful observation.......watching and learning from Wall Street giants such as Felix Rohatyn at Lazard and Ray McGuire at Merrill Lynch were invaluable. Sitting in their offices, I’d observe them as they romanced a potential client to win an assignment, subtly laid the groundwork to help a big shot decide whether to consummate a merger or helped negotiate the terms of a bankruptcy. I learned how the business really worked and began to understand what levers to pull to get deals done......my advice to you, fellow Wall Street drones: Get back to the office!!!
Advising chief executives on the details of a merger agreement, navigating an initial public offering and setting up and executing a profitable trade mean watching the senior bankers and traders who have been doing it for decades. These masters have made all the mistakes that you will make — and need to make.
When advising on how much to pay for an acquisition, whether and how to begin a hostile takeover or when to bluff during a sale process, what often matter most are things that are impossible to convey via a tiny video-chat rectangle: emotional nuances, body language and subtle social cues. That’s why Wall Street bankers and traders need to get vaccinated if they aren’t already and return to their offices as soon as possible, even as the Delta variant of the coronavirus surges......The yelling! The robust intellectual debate! The alpha male mind games! [i.e = "mind games"] The subtle power dynamics of who pounded the table when and who ate off whose plate. Yet their jousting enabled the business — and many others — to get back on its feet.....studying Felix Rohatyn, the mergers and acquisitions legend, as he roamed the narrow, threadbare halls of the 32nd floor of 1 Rockefeller Plaza. He wielded his absolute power through a wink or a nod to lesser Lazard partners or ignoring some of them with a stony stare.......By watching my mentors press an advantage or bluff an opponent, I absorbed their deal-making wisdom. There is simply no way that an endless series of video chats could have replaced the lessons......Before the recent Covid surge, fueled by the Delta variant, executives of Goldman Sachs, one of Wall Street’s biggest and most respected banks, concluded in May that most U.S. employees needed to return to the office in June. JPMorgan Chase said in June that U.S. employees would need to return to the office at least part time by July 6. The executives decided, correctly, that the benefits of >>in-person<< collaboration outweighed the potential >>health risks<<. This is the only way employees will have the chance to fully thrive at their craft.....we need Wall Street to get fully vaccinated and back to work in person so that the next generation of bankers and traders can learn how capital is raised and distributed, how industry-transforming deals get done and how to provide the liquidity that enables the trading of stocks, bonds, loans, options and other essential financial instruments.......There is such a thing as the art of the deal. And that artistry, too, can be lost if it [i.e. = 'this "generational knowledge"'] is not passed down from one generation to the next — >>in person<<.
]]>apprenticeships body_language cues deal-making dealmakers Felix_Rohatyn Goldman_Sachs in-person investment_banking JPMorgan_Chase mind_games nonverbal observations pandemics post-coronavirus_era power_dynamics prompts reading_the_room traders vaccinations Wall_Street William_Cohan work_from_home Zoom generational_knowledge health_riskshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:921d909e1807/Keynote speakers thrive in a booming virtual market | Financial Times2021-06-16T19:47:04+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/2a52dc4a-b922-4bbf-8a15-dca1b939d11a
jerrykingClubhouse in-person pandemics public_speaking speeches COVID-19 pundits keynoters audio live-contenthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6990512652c5/Love Artisanal Soaps? Make Your Own - The New York Times2021-05-15T02:36:27+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/t-magazine/how-to-make-soap.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=T%20Magazine
jerryking19th_century artisan_hobbies_&_crafts craftsmanship handmade in-person origin_story P&G personal_care_products personal_grooming soap Colgate-Palmolivehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1930da64cbce/Opinion | I Started Khan Academy. We Can Still Avoid an Education Catastrophe.2020-08-13T18:01:21+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/opinion/coronavirus-school-digital.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
jerryking>in-person<< learning, but there’s a lot of room for improvement...... the philanthropically funded nonprofit >>Khan Academy<<, provides free online exercises, videos and software to over 100 million users in 46 languages......for most students, distance learning can’t replace a great in-person experience. Pure >>distance-learning<< is suboptimal, but we have to do it out of necessity because of the pandemic. I have been working with teachers over the last several months and together we have realized that lesson plans designed for in-person classes don’t work in this coronavirus world......The lessons are falling short in terms of the >>social-emotional<< experience that school should provide. Remember that school is where most of us developed our deepest friendships, were inspired or motivated by amazing teachers and learned to collaborate with others. Because every aspect of a child’s life has become more “distanced” during the pandemic, there’s an even higher burden on distance-learning to emphasize human connection......These traditional lessons are also too long and not interactive enough to hold a student’s attention over a video conference. The traditional paper-based homework that’s being assigned does not provide students with enough feedback or teachers with enough information to understand what students are learning.
.....So, no, virtual school will never be a perfect replacement for in-person school, but we can do a lot better......it’s critical that educators provide live teacher-led video conference sessions. These need to optimize both academic coverage and >>social interaction<<..... Imagine a sixth-grade math Zoom session in which the teacher provides a challenging problem that can be solved in more than one way. The teacher spends two to three minutes presenting the problem and then asks students to spend the next 10 minutes trying to solve it. After 10 minutes, the teacher asks students to submit their answers over the videoconference chat or polling function. Based on the responses, the teacher then sorts the 30 students into five student virtual breakout groups of six each for 10 minutes. Each group will be asked to reconcile answers and methods of solving the problem. This will allow the students to socially interact with one another and allows for **strong peer learning**[i.e.="social learning"]. Finally, the 30 students will be brought back together to report out what each breakout group learned.......some teachers are replicating their lectures in YouTube video form, and this has been incredibly time consuming and depleting for them. But doing this isn’t necessary. After all, video lessons on almost every topic already exist on the internet. Teachers’ time is valuable and should often be used instead for maintaining interaction and connection with students. Teachers should be given the liberty to focus on how to create more interactive touchpoints with students, more than trying to recreate online resources similar to those that already exist. This isn’t just healthier for the students; teachers will also get more energy from interacting with their students than they do from spending time in a home recording studio making Khan Academy-style videos........Finally, distance learning has made it much more difficult to ensure that students are doing their own work. To avoid a situation where students either get credit for knowledge they don’t have or vice versa, educators need simple mechanics to authenticate student work. For example, teachers could ask students to submit recordings of themselves thinking out loud while taking an exam.]]>distance_education education emotional_connections founders in-person Khan_Academy online_education pandemics post-coronavirus_era Salman_Khan students teachers Zoom tools time_is_your_most_valuable_asset social_learning social-emotional social_interactionshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:2bac9046716c/We All Make Mistakes. Not Everybody Fixes Them - Friday Forward (#238)2020-07-24T16:14:35+00:00
https://www.robertglazer.com/friday-forward/two-tails/
jerrykingcustomer_experience customer_service Maine no_excuses organizational_culture restaurants root_cause solutions wait_times omnichannel mistakes BOPIS e-commerce in-person seafood pandora’s_boxhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3fdb7f471479/Opinion | It’s 2022. What Does Life Look Like?2020-07-10T17:39:51+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-economy-two-years.html
jerryking>baseline scenario<<: a vaccine will arrive sometime in 2021-- Until then, the world endures waves of sickness, death and uncertainty....Many things will not change. That’s one of history’s lessons. The financial crisis of 2007-9 didn’t cause Americans to sour on stocks, and it didn’t lead to an overhaul of Wall Street. The election of the first Black president didn’t usher in an era of racial conciliation. The 9/11 attacks didn’t make Americans unwilling to fly. The Vietnam War didn’t bring an end to extended foreign wars without a clear mission.....
** Weak companies will die -- Local newspapers will be one casualty. Traditional department stores another.... the virus has interrupted in-person shopping and caused many consumers to shift even more business online, to Amazon, Target and Walmart.....Higher education......The virus is exacerbating almost every problem that colleges faced......Cuts to higher-education budgets could make it even harder for poor and middle-class students to graduate....
** Habits will change --remote learning during the pandemic — from preschool through college --was disappointing. On the other hand, white-collar workers' experiences with videoconferencing doesn’t replace the richness of in-person conversations, but many meetings work perfectly well over Zoom, FaceTime or Google Meet..... several major companies don't expect to use as much Manhattan office space as they did before the pandemic.....In-person meetings and conferences will continue to happen. But the threshold for what requires travel, and the time, cost and fatigue it brings, will rise........The larger theme is that crises can force or accelerate behavior changes. Some of the old behavior will revert when the pandemic ends. But not all of it will. In some cases, people will realize that they were sticking to old habits out of inertia and prefer their new habits
** Politics will shape the economy -- The biggest source of uncertainty about the post-virus American economy is political. Past crises have transformed the economy, but almost always because of government policy.....The Civil War allowed Abraham Lincoln and his allies to create a transcontinental railroad and a national network of public universities. The Great Depression led to a raft of federal laws that reduced inequality. The housing crisis that began in 2007 helped elect a Democratic president and Congress that extended health insurance to millions of people........One of the key post-virus implications could be further consolidation in many industries, with big companies becoming even bigger......Consolidation, in turn, tends to increase income and wealth inequality,.....A big Trump loss, amid a pandemic and recession, could jolt the Republican Party into being more open to government action. ....A progressive agenda is shaping up to have two defining features. The first is reducing inequality — through higher taxes on the rich, greater scrutiny of big companies, new efforts to reduce racial injustice and more investments and programs for the middle class and poor, including health care, education and paid leave. The second is acting on climate change, which could cause even more global misery than the coronavirus.
.............Biden may not seem like a history-altering figure, certainly like less of one than Barack Obama did. But he could wind up presiding over a larger scale of political change than Mr. Obama did, for reasons largely independent of the two men themselves.........“Although you had this crisis, you didn’t have the ideas that were ready to go,” ..... progressives are better positioned to pass sweeping change in 2021 than they were in 2009, after the financial crisis. ...... progressives have spent years working through the details of plans on climate change, high-end tax increases, antitrust policy and more........In less than 15 years, the United States has suffered the biggest two economic crises since the Great Depression, the worst pandemic in more than a century and the election of two presidents unlike any before them — and diametrically unlike each other. If there is a single lesson of the current era of American politics, it’s that change can happen more quickly than we imagined (i.e. punctuated equilibrium).
]]>baselines climate_change Colleges_&_Universities crisis cruise_ships department_stores e-commerce economic_downturn future habits ideas in-person income_inequality Joe_Biden lessons_learned new_normal Obama pandemics post-coronavirus_era punctuated_equilibrium restaurants seminal_moments shopping_malls store_closings the_Great_Depression theme_parks think_tanks vaccines viruses WWII health_insurance rapid_change historical_lessons progressivism local_journalism scientific_breakthroughshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:24e4c58c1ce0/'Virtual fieldwork' is no substitute for travel2015-11-22T16:14:49+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/15899e548aac699728fc
jerrykingtravel due_diligence concierge_services market_research sleuthing research_methods Tyler_Brûlé interpretation forecasting primary_field_research face2face in-personhttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c585f1152175/It’s not a small world after all -2015-06-08T03:09:18+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/its-not-a-small-world-after-all/article24826315/
jerryking>cultural products<<. But go to a showing of Avatar in China, and tell me that it carries the same >>meaning<< for its audience as it would in Studio City. For the former, I’m sure, it’s as much about environmental destruction as to the latter it might be about a dazzling new technology. Watch the same movie in Baghdad and it becomes a parable about imperialism. Every country may draw from the same pop-cultural pool, but each translates it into its own context and language and tradition [i.e. = because we perceive "mental maps"/"metaphors" differently--culturally-specifically--in each country? Because our collective psyche's are different?]. We file into the same movie, but come out having seen a radically different film.
Again and again, in fact, what strikes me when I touch down in Jerusalem or Pyongyang is not how much it shares with Washington or London, but how much it doesn’t, in spite of common surfaces, (yes, nine months ago, I did see the two pizzerias and the 36-lane bowling-alley in North Korea’s capital). Which is why travel is more urgent than ever: Our screens vividly bring faraway places into our homes, projecting an image of closeness, but every encounter with the foreign **in the flesh** [i.e. = "in-person"] reminds us forcibly of how much lies far beyond our reckoning.]]>translations contextual national_identity travel cultural_products interpretation languages traditions Pico_Iyer metaphors mental_maps perception collective_psyche face2face in-person cultural_appreciation meaning culturally-specifichttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6f2f2adbfcba/The Internship - Not the Movie - NYTimes.com2013-06-10T00:44:20+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/the-internship-not-the-movie.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
jerrykingjob_search tips internships HireArt Managing_Your_Career value_creation new_graduates experience thinking_big value_added creativity imagination execution Tom_Friedman non-routine in-person special_sauce unpaid apprenticeships cultural_capital future-proofinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5f90cc52b4c9/Executives and entrepreneurs need to go global in person2012-09-21T17:44:13+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/canada-competes/executives-and-entrepreneurs-need-to-go-global-in-person/article4554857/
jerrykingglobalization travel passports entrepreneur face2face in-person internationally_minded overseas_assignmentshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a5023af91d48/What Knowledge Is of Most Worth in the Global and Digital Economy?2011-06-25T08:37:03+00:00
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/109076/chapters/What-Knowledge-Is-of-Most-Worth-in-the-Global-and-Digital-Economy%C2%A2.aspx
jerrykingdigital_economy Daniel_Pink China education eBay 21st._century skills_training skills automation non-routine imagination in-person special_sauce Lawrence_Katz knowledge Managing_Your_Career core_competencies personal_growth self-analysis face2face self-worth future-proofing mental_maps outsourcing global_economy highly-skilledhttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e74e0d4c885e/Translation as Ambassador - Publishing and National Pride2010-12-08T14:14:42+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/books/08translate.html?ref=global-home&pagewanted=all
jerryking>writers<< to >>tour<< [i.e. = "in-person"/"touring"] in the United States, submitting to American marketing and promotional techniques they may have previously shunned and exploiting existing niches in the publishing industry.
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From Open books, open borders ☑
OCTOBER 20, 2017 | FT| Janan Ganesh.
The real prize is to comprehend another country’s thought patterns, speech rhythms, historic ghosts and >>unconscious biases<< — and these seep out from the stories it tells and the way it tells them....Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker cites the spread of literacy as a reason for the long-term decline of human violence. To read another person’s story is to end up with a larger “circle of sympathy”. But even if America’s concern is the narrowest raison d’état, rather than world peace, it would profit from reading beyond its borders.
The minimum return is that more American readers would have more fun. The headiest writing tends to come from places that are ascendant enough to matter but raw enough to retain some measure of dramatic chaos: 19th-century Britain and Russia, mid-20th-century America, and now, perhaps, early 21st-century Asia. It is not just in economics that protectionism stifles.
]]>translations publishing business_planning books market_entry insights niches national_pride cultural_appreciation EU storytelling subsidies writers in-person language_barriers touring cultural_ambassadors cultural_exchanges unconscious_biaseshttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:dc0d0e4677d2/American Dream is Changing | Nye - Gateway to Nevada's Rurals2010-10-31T23:23:42+00:00
http://www.nyegateway.com/2010/10/american-dream-is-changing.html
jerrykingFareed_Zakaria 21st._century ksfs indispensable specialization local languages mathematics advice new_graduates artisan_hobbies_&_crafts bespoke quantitative global_economy digital_economy knowledge_economy the_American_dream in-person face2face uniqueness organizing_data data_manipulation things_I_can_do_for_youhttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:80897286108b/U.S. Technology Dominance? Think Again2010-10-18T09:49:41+00:00
http://www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/weblog/education_and_outsourcing_a_bleak_future/
jerrykingAndy_Kessler letters_to_the_editor America_in_Decline? barriers_to_entry college-educated face2face high-wage hubris in-person services high-statushttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3f1a90f4d843/The Digitalization of the World - Adam Smith, Esq.2010-01-21T15:15:05+00:00
http://www.adamsmithesq.com/2010/01/the_digitalization_of_the_world/
jerryking>roadmaps<<, >>decision trees<<, alternative ways of pursuing their objectives,[i.e. = "generating strategic options"] with lesser and greater ratios of return and reward. **Hands-on personal care**? Yes, because there is no substitute for being there. The more amazing technology and collaboration-at-a-distance becomes (what the Web, ultimately, is all about), the more important face to face personal meetings are. The more people you know "virtually," the more you want to meet them >>in person<<."
]]>Bruce_MacEwen JCK client_management management_consulting indispensable professional_education digital_life teaching decision_trees ratios roadmaps risk-assessment strategic_thinking risks face2face personal_meetings personal_touch generating_strategic_options client_development expertise knowledge_intensive inequality_of_information trustworthiness digitalization hands-on high-touch collaboration client_education in-person customer_educationhttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c8107c24410f/An Old-School Social Network - The Wednesday 102009-11-26T14:31:54+00:00
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704779704574555862616828726.html#articleTabs%3Darticle
jerrykingsocial_networking networking face2face in-person old_boys_networkhttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:574c398ee15b/FT.com / Wealth / James Altucher - Never forget the power of networking2009-02-21T05:33:25+00:00
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/54c16714-fc88-11dd-aed8-000077b07658.html
jerrykingideas opportunities investments networking face2face James_Altucher in-person investinghttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:04fb3b580183/