Logic (the rapper), Deep Work, Wild China - Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 1:00 PM
Welcome Gary to the Shoot the shit club. This is a thread that I repeatedly sent out to Maiyah after lunch when I was at LG; just stuff about our convo that I remembered and wanted to add on. Now I have all my buddies at LG (and beyond) held hostage on this thread with unnecessary facts and things nobody cares about - mwuahahaha.
Every Wednesday, I'll recite three bullets, explain what I've been up to, and expand on anything within the three bullets with attachments or short blurbs.
After lunch with Gary, my brain made me think of a cool podcast called "How I Built This" by NPR. The episode that came to mind was the Chris Zarou and Logic journey of broke rapper living in a basement to cool rapper hitting Billboard charts. Very good listen on how a team-up of rapper and a no-experience music manager were able to make it. Also shows how Chris Zarou tackled managing an artist without any experience, just reading books in the library. Here is the link: https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/701212707/logic-logic-chris-zarou
I've been pondering on accelerated learning, a type of learning that would be able to take you from 0 to 100 in milliseconds - okay, that's an exaggeration, but you all get my point... Rather than going on prolonged periods of unstructured practice and wondering why you're getting nowhere or progressing slowly, there's a type of learning that is not taught traditionally in schools or college. Many of us know rote learning (ie. formulas and repetition till we get it right), but that's only like 10% of learning methods really. Cal Newport's book "Deep Work" is something that I've been looking for a while. It teaches all about learning fast and structured: [redacted link] (this is the pirate link... okay, the amazon link) ---- Another great online thing to learn about learning is the Coursera course "Learning How to Learn". Here is the reddit summary link: https://www.reddit.com/r/GetMotivated/comments/5950tm/text_i_just_finished_the_online_coursera_course/
I was watching Wild China recently on Netflix. The way the documentary series came about was during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The BBC realized China's media cordiality was at a good level during the Olympics, so they asked the Chinese National Broadcast company (the government broadcasting station) for a production partnership to celebrate Chinese natural history with a documentary. They agreed, thus why we have Wild China. A really good part of the first episode was when they focused on the South China Karst Region. Really fascinating and historical; it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Link: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1248/
Macaque: https://www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/39042806545/in/photostream/