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blochon How To Be Fucking Awesome

"Finally, deliberate practice is an effortful activity that can be sustained only for a limited time each day during extended periods without leading to exhaustion (effort constraint). To maximize gains from long-term practice, individuals must avoid exhaustion and must limit practice to an amount from which they can completely recover on a daily or weekly basis." (K. Anders Ericsson)

"A number of training studies in real life have compared the efficiency of practice durations rangingfrom 1-8 hr per day.These studiesshowessentiallyno benefit from durations exceeding 4 hr per day and reduced benefits from practice exceeding 2 hr (Welford, 1968; Woodworth & Schlosberg, 1954). Many studiesof the acquisition oftyping skill (Baddeley & Longman, 1978; Dvorak et al.. 1936) and other perceptual-motor skills (Henshaw& Holman, 1930) indicate that the effective duration of deliberate practice may be closer to 1hr perday." (K. Anders Ericsson)

projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracticePR93.pdf

blochon Do you read?

"Another way to read quickly is to cut bait on the losers. I start ten or so books for every one I finish. I don't mind disliking a book, and I never regret having picked it up and started it. I am ruthless in my discards."

Tyler Cowen http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2006/12...

blochon 89 Ways to Kick Start Your Hacking

Any list above 5 items signals that the writer hasn't done what is really valuable for the reader: Preselected and prioritized the material.

89 items is just camuflaged information overload.

blochon The brain can get a lot done, and leave you a little smarter, when it sleeps

Piotr Wozniak (inventor of SuperMemory) wrote about this eight years ago: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm

blochon 3D dual n-back Speed Run

Agree. He has build the funfair of brain fitness!

blochon Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeeper to release the potentially genocidal AI?

"Our evolutionary psychologists begin to guess at the aliens' psychology, and plan out how we could persuade them to let us out of the box. It's not difficult in an absolute sense - they aren't very bright - but we've got to be very careful..."

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/05/faster-than-ein.html

blochon PG: Disconnecting Distraction

Perhaps people without your super secret self designed software could use http://www.stickk.com/ for something similar.

blochon Some Heroes

Watch the attack at 3:53. It is pretty easy being a martial legend if your students attack like that.