Greater Than Code

183: How We Learn with Vaidehi Joshi

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01:47 - Vaidehi’s Superpower: Learning new things and teaching them to other people

  • Teaching Things Helps YOU Learn
  • Deciding on Things to Learn

    • 05:01 - Approaching Learning

    • Reading
    • Relating Things to Things Already Known
    • Ask Yourself, “Why do I need to know this?”
    • Tricks for Reading Papers
    • Read the Abstract & Conclusion
    • Pick Fights with the Paper
    • Using Tutorials
    • Accountability & Motivation
    • Learning with Others
    • Unraveled
    • Hermeneutic Circle

      • 20:15 - Having Aha! Moments & Epiphanies: Brain Percolation

      • Russell Ackoff
        • Absolution
        • Resolution
        • Solution
        • Dissolution
        • Paradoxes

          • 32:02 - Technologists Are Good Storytellers

          39:03 - Improving Over Time and Doing Your Best

          • Hindsight Bias
          • Blameless Retrospectives: Accountability

            • 47:55 - Creating Spaces for People to Succeed

            • Manager Training
            • “Managing Up”: The Phrase – meh

              • 52:58 - Effective Mentorship

              • Mentorship vs Sponsorship
              • Trust
              • Lara Hogan

                • Reflections:

                Jamey: Incremental learning and progress – biting off small chunks and not beating ourselves up while learning. It’s not a waste of time to just do a little at a time.

                Rein: Soft skills are technical skills.

                Vaidehi: It’s hard to measure and quantify these things.

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