I often have people newer to the tech industry ask me for secrets to success. There aren’t many, really, but this secret — being willing to do something so terrifically tedious that it appears to be magic — works in tech too.
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Noticing biases in others is easy, noticing biases in yourself is hard.
However, it has a much higher pay-off.
- Ideopunk, 100 tips for a better life
You’ve probably discovered that certain strategies help you absorb new ideas: solving interesting problems, writing chapter summaries, doing creative projects, etc. Whatever strategies you prefer, they’re not magic. There’s a reason they work (when they do): they’re leveraging some underlying truth about your cognition—about the way you think and learn.
- Andy Matuschak, Why books donʼt work