December 17, 2024: The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything

“Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants – a great phrase.”

― Alexis Ohanian

Hi friends,

How's everything going?
This is Kei and Kazuki, founders of Glasp 👋

We hand-picked 3 good content for you to highlight this week. Hope they'll help you get new ideas and perspectives.

📚 3 Good Recommendations

How to Be More Agentic
by Cate Hall (8 mins)

• Developing agency is a learnable skill that involves deliberately seeking discomfort, taking risks, and embracing rejection to grow beyond perceived limitations.
• Gaining honest feedback, finding neglected opportunities ("edges"), and expanding your “surface area” for serendipitous connections help foster creativity, adaptability, and success.
• Prioritizing rest, maintaining sustainable work habits, and viewing all traits as learnable lead to sustained agency, resilience, and the ability to shape your destiny.

Learn In Public
by swyx (3 mins)

• Create and share your learning process publicly: Write, speak, code, and teach openly, treating your past self as the audience.
• Embrace feedback and mentorship: Accept that you’ll often be wrong, seek correction, and connect with experienced developers who offer guidance because you’re openly learning.
• Grow from student to teacher and beyond: By producing public content, you attract help, build expertise, and ultimately gain opportunities, recognition, and potentially paid work.

The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU
by Josh Kaufman (19 mins)

• The popular “10,000-hour rule” applies to achieving world-class expertise, not to becoming reasonably good at a new skill.
• Most people can reach a useful level of proficiency with about 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice—including breaking the skill into components, learning enough to self-correct, removing distractions, and pushing through initial frustration.
• Using the ukulele as an example, Josh Kaufman shows that applying this method can noticeably improve almost any skill in far less time than commonly believed.

📣 Community

• 🟩 Coming Soon: Firefox & Safari Extensions:
  We’re developing a Firefox extension and updating our Safari extension. Soon, you can use the Glasp Highlighter and YouTube Summary features on both browsers. Stay tuned!
• 🟨 Released Yearly Recap 2024:
  We’ve released and emailed a yearly recap for 2024 📚. In it, you can view the number of web articles, highlights, notes, and Kindle imports you made in 2024, as well as your ranking within the Glasp community. To see your recap, please click this link or go to the 'My Highlights' page and select `Yearly` on the left.

• 🟥 Glasp Talk with Teresa Torres:
  Glasp Talk features intimate interviews with luminaries, revealing their emotions, experiences, and stories. The guest is, Teresa Torres, a renowned product discovery coach and author of Continuous Discovery Habits. Teresa is widely recognized for helping product teams develop sustainable discovery practices that are both customer-centric and valuable to the business.

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👀 Featured Curator on Glasp

Kerry Friend
She learns neurodiversity, AI, mental health, and more! Let’s follow her and learn together 🤝

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❤️ Gratitude

We found some people who mentioned Glasp in their articles and blogs, and we appreciate all the kindness!

• Leveraging AI for Maximum Impact in Property Management: Important Tools & Strategy on BetterWho
• Top 12 AI Summarizers for Accurate Recaps (with Reviews) on Maestra
• AI & ChatGPT: je nieuwe collega’s bij het ontwerpen van blended leren (AI & ChatGPT: your new colleagues in designing blended learning) on ennuonline

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Hope you enjoyed reading this newsletter!
See you next week ;)

Best,
Kei and Kazuki

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