This is a short summary of what I’ve learnt from reading chapter 2 “The Hereditary Mechanism”, of the book “What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell”. This chapter brings in the societal concept of leadership or rulers. Many processes in the cell or between cells are described…

This is a short summary of what I’ve learnt from reading chapter 1 “The Classical Physicist’s Approach to the Subject”, of the book “What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell”. The book is the author’s attempt to account for events happening within a living organism in space…

I got these principles from chapter 4 “Write Clean and Simple Code” from the book “The Art of Clean Code: Best Practices to Eliminate Complexity and Simplify Your Life”. Principle 1: Think About the Big Picture - focus on the big picture and just implement the necessary features to improve the…

Chapter 6 of the book “Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil” is “reframing: occasionally we need to switch frames or invent new ones”. We normally stay within a causal frame and just adjust the constraints because it is more mentally efficient when we can just rely…

Chapter 5 of the book “Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil” is “constraints: our vision needs to be bounded to be effective”. While counterfactuals make causal frames actionable, they are functional and their effectiveness depends on shaping them well through our goals in the context that…

Chapter 4 of the book “Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil” is “counterfactuals: envisioning worlds that do not exist lets us excel in this one”. Counterfactual thinking is considered the second element of framing. It is not about freewheeling fantasising, nor about intellectural clowning. Counterfactuals are…

Chapter 3 of the book “Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil” is “causality: we are causal-inference engines and often wrong, but this is good”. Framing must be done based on causal understanding, which means that the resulting framework, mental model, or system can be understood by…

Principle 2 of the book “Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career” is “Focus: Sharpen Your Knife”. A blog post on the topic of attention, which is related to the topic discussed here, is “Self Evaluation based on the 4th Power — The Power Of Attention…

Starting our learning with metalearning helps us understand how our subject of learning breaks down into different elements, and see how others have learnt it previously, thereby giving us good starting points for our learning process. However, as our skills develop, there will be fewer examples for us to follow…