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Learn anything in three moves
Understand it, connect it, teach it back. A worked afternoon on why prices rise — what each move is for, what it leaves behind, and how to do it with nothing but paper.
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How understanding works, and how to build it.
Short essays on how understanding works — explaining, connecting and teaching it back — what the research says, and how to use it with or without Graphite.
Looking for a worked example? Read the guides to organizing notes and learning from them.
· 7 min read
Ideas are not folders
A folder asks you to choose one home for every thought, but understanding is many-to-many. Why a learning notebook works better when where a note goes and what it connects to are two different things, and links carry a reason.
· 6 min read
Teach it back: the fastest way to find out what you don’t know
Explaining something exposes the gaps that reading hides. What the research says about learning by teaching — including why the best listener is one who knows less than you, and asks.
· 5 min read
Connecting the dots: how links make memory, and when they don’t
Connected knowledge is easier to understand and to keep. But looking at a map of connections isn’t the same as making them — what the research on schemas, concept maps and retrieval says, and a daily practice that uses it.
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Questions are the to-dos of learning
What learners can borrow from Getting Things Done and Things 3 — capture everything, keep a short list of what’s next, and have something to tick off. In learning, that something is a question you can now answer in your own words.