@ 3-7 min Steve what it means to get a PhD and navigate opportunities that exist institutions
@8-15 min Jeff which PhD program you’re gonna go to - the going gets tough when leave w nothing in Masters - Science of decision making Heath brother’s book Decisive - think about this reading as collecting information so you can make a better decision. 4 month of thinking. income streams PhD program so I get placed in my desired job right out of program. may not disclose our side hustle to our institution - implicit in that. horizons of focus in what I want out of my education. Global 1s major ticket evidence. upward management - the things you want institution is blind to all that. thought deeply follow exactly what I have to say.
@19 Stephen King book On Writing - story of the Pin - submitting small articles on the wall collecting rejection letters
@21 Deliberate practice
@24 min Conquering College! skateboarding vs how of studying - principles there relate practices / ignition, part of your brain actively asking how to manage time - that practice solves my problem let me solve my problem you don’t have to fail to benefit my failure. how many students have the w
@30 min takeaways for Steve
@31 min really high quality production of video all pro researchers are pro writers(readers and thinkers) for people who are gonna be thought leaders. writing systems we are gonna develop consistently and processing and collecting info those same systems are directly transferable to PhD basically partitioning cognitive load technical to writing not only in PhD process. all of that stuff depends on systems of creation the more opportunity you’ll have to fail “people on fringes
@42min excited (ignited maintain discipline) maintain that
@46 min society is not structured in a way to value this - paradigm of Newport how he changed students lives, he’s selling a concept of hyperproductivity for personal economic gain, not talking about system transformation racism if you have a hierarchical system and you want to be at the pinnacle of that system under that system inequities of our entire society are encapsulated in that system we don’t actually value teaching, it’s way less easy to measure the output of a teacher than the measure the output of individual if you can produce goods that have, that relationships isn ot based on exchange of goods. stronger our minds are see right through it. ppl w power how do i maintain this, i have to remember to focus that value for myself and advocate that for my professional life
@51 min academia they train jerks - their inferior
@53 min professors are doing the most rational things
@56 youtube boots to books
@108 no prof on earth knew google’s page rank algorithm eigenvalue NSF GRFS
@109 students forget how much agency they have, how do you apply the knowledge in practice in your particular field, how to apply that stuff as a plant, they are providing some foundational knowledge - systematically speaking challenge other professors believe in yourself - what do we pay for in our society - do we pay for A’s in calc classes - stuff that gets celebrated people who leverage old ideas in new ways so much of the challenge of education for students to figure out new and creative ways to apply and combined old knowledge to solve new problems - their job is not let me synthesize my ideas - how to apply something to a completely new context - if I was to speak to a student - start to track your questions treating your questions as important - challenge authority - you make your own education
