Core Dumped

A collection of resources and brain dumps on many things that resonated with me over the years.

Inspired by Cosma Shalizi's Notebooks.

Thinking

Notes on learning something, recognizing it later, and looking back. Problem solving points at mental models, and both learning and retrospection point at mastery learning.

• PrinciplesSargent's Nobel banquet speech.
• LearningHow to learn better.
• Mental ModelsSolution by recognition.
• Problem SolvingA reading list. It points at mental models.
• RetrospectionThe ultimate habit.

Ethos

The standards those notes are held to. High Standard and the Leadership series share the stretch-goal quote, and the generalist note points at mental models.

• DeterminationYou need to learn to be invincible.
• High StandardStretch goals, goal-setting theory, and Aim High.
• GeneralistHeinlein's line. It points at mental models.
• LeadershipOpen, Logical, One Team, Proactive, Move Fast, Prioritize, Aim High.

Craft

The machine-learning course, a programming note, and three 2020 notes on how companies were building AI. The course has a Korean version.

• InferenceA short course on machine learning. Korean version.
• ProgrammingOn becoming a better programmer.
• AI StrategyByteDance, Google, and OpenAI.

People and conversations

Communication is two notes on conflict in a team, with the four horsemen read as work patterns. Influences is the reading list and the people pages those notes draw on.

• CommunicationNonviolent Communication, and the four horsemen as team patterns.
• InfluencesThe people list and the reading list.