What's your daily knowledge ritual?
Knowledge is an enormous competitive edge in life. For entrepreneurs, it's a necessity. What do you do every day to make sure you keep learning?
As for myself, I
- Watch Bloomberg Technology and Business
- Follow Slidebean founder's lessons
- Listen to The James Altucher Show
Share yours below!
Read r/worldnews and hackernews, and then review medium stats and articles from the circle!
For many years I’ve been reading online articles from many sources just to give my self an illusion that I learn something, but that was like eating unhealthy takeaway.
I think the most useful knowledge was the structured knowledge gained from books, so I have a subscription on o Reilly and for other books I browse sometimes less legal sources like library genesis. I like to have them in pdf format so I can make notes ( iOS Margin note app and LiquidText ) flash cards, and brain maps and link concepts between documents.
If I learn something new I try to apply this in real live ASAP, otherwise I learned all the knowledge is within a few days lost in the information chaos I consume every day.
In general I think learning “less” is important. And to keep your knowledge I try to learn things that are really crucial to my daily life and work.
The endless scrolling on Facebook, Reddit, etc. really makes it difficult to ever say - "I think I covered enough ground today". I def feel the same way.
Can you recommend a good book you've read for Business/Entrepreneurship? I've recently read, "The Lean Startup" by Eric Reis. The amount of actionable and reproducible knowledge it has is incredible. Def recommend for any bootstrapping startup founder.
Using flashcards - that's a very interesting way to retain knowledge. Coincidentally enough, I'm learning basic Corporate Finance right now and this might be a good way to remember all the ratios involved.
Thank you for sharing!
Recently I read a quite good book “Thinking in systems” it doesn’t give direct answers how to make a business ( it’s not even about business ) But introducing the concept that everything is a system and it really could change the view on the world an how to analyse products, competition, customers. It could help to understand action reactions and feedback loops for a company. It may give you a few aha! moments that things actually works in counterintuitive ways.
About flash cards ( Anki, supermemo) for the ratios they should work pretty well. But in general everything you put into flash cards you should understand pretty well. ( the knowledge must be attached to other leaves on the tree ) otherwise I tend to remember things only during the training session, but I rarely can digit up in real life situations.
For me, it's not about being on the top but about gaining knowledge that I can apply long-term. For that, I read books on my commute every day.
But if I want to get info about the latest tech stuff, I like to check out https://stratechery.com/ as well as TechMeme or TechCrunch.
Fair point. Amazed by the quality of insights on Stratechery! Thank you for sharing.
I have a separate email address for all my newsletter subscriptions. I browse through my mails daily including IH 😁