183: How We Learn with Vaidehi Joshi

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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