Further reading after the "Human Learning" talk

README.md

• Coursera's Learning how to Learn course is starting again. https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn If you prefer the written version, take a look at Barbara Oakley book https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Numbers-Science-Flunked-Algebra-ebook/dp/B00G3L19ZU

• Take a look at how we think with Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555

• Uncle Bob inspires you to keep learning as a professional. http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Coder-Conduct-Professional-Programmers/dp/0137081073

• Not mentioned in the talk because of time limitation but very relevant for aspiring software craftsmen: http://www.amazon.com/Apprenticeship-Patterns-Guidance-Aspiring-Craftsman/dp/0596518382

• Simulation of learning without and with the Ebbinghaus "forgetting curve" hindsight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai2K3qHpC7c

• Best practices for creating cards. https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules

• On motivation and habit formation:

  • The power of habit: http://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/081298160X
  • The motivation hacker: http://www.amazon.com/Motivation-Hacker-Nick-Winter/dp/0989279820

• Piotw Wozniak, our newly favorite Wozniak. http://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/

• Hard evidence on spaced repetition. More than you can read in one evening. https://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition

• Chunking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology)

• A guy that won Jeopardy by using Anki: http://quantifiedself.com/2013/06/roger-craig-on-spaced-repetition-and-anki/

• Anki

  • Desktop: http://ankisrs.net/
  • Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ichi2.anki&hl=en