The mistake people make is following advice. Instead, you should use it to understand someone else's world model so that you can improve yours.

One of the most common mistakes in today's digital age:

Confusing data collection with actual learning

Reflection, action and expression transform data into wisdom

Over the past few weeks, I have been scanning my notes and homework from school using the nice professional scanners at my workplace. These notes have been sitting in my closet for several years because I don't want to keep them, but didn't want to throw them out until scanning them, and I've never had access to a scanner that could do all these pages.

This has prompted me to reflect on some of the habits and choices that I follow in my handwritten notes. I realize there are entire online cultures of journaling and notetaking and notebook-buying, and I'm not here to compete with them. This is just what I do.

I get asked a lot “How do you remember all that stuff you read?”

This is the answer. I write about it in a blog post, or I craft an interview with the author of the book on the podcast.

At a bare minimum, I at least try to share what I’ve been reading with a friend or family member in a conversation.

To become an expert in any field, you have to be an ambitious learner first. Every expert started out as a curious novice once.

You think you know something, until you try writing about it.

Things I wish I’d learnt at high school:

1 Public speaking
2 Project management
3 Negotiation
4 Conflict resolution
5 Software development
6 Accounting
7 Financial planning
8 Critical thinking
9 Storytelling
10 People management
11 Marketing

What all high schools should teach:
-Opportunity cost
-Diminishing returns
-Compounding
-Self sufficiency
-Sales 101 (aka dealing w rejection)
-Mindfulness
-Conflict resolution
-Resume building
-Interviewing
-Serving others
-Entrepreneurship
-Finding any answer on Google

Computer science gives you far more leverage to change the world than any other study in our age.