Tag: learning


  • You may not have heard of “spaced repetition learning,” but quite likely you’ve been the unwitting victim of it. It’s the educational equivalent of being force-fed the same soggy cereal every morning until you can recite the ingredients list in your sleep. For those unfamiliar with how this insidious method is structured, I’ll break it…

  • AKA the Unbearable Importance of Learning Things You Never Thought You’d Need “Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” —Leonardo da Vinci I’ve long admired da Vinci, the patron saint of the well-rounded genius. I like to imagine that if he were alive today, he’d be the kind of guy who…

  • “The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.” – Simone Weil I found this quote from this great YouTube video from…