Category: studies
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My Hypothesis of Memory
Spaced Repetition can also be described as Spaced Repeated Triggering. Spaced Repetition (SR) Works at a Kinesthesis and Perceptual level. …
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Mental 5S
Mental 5S should have been one of the first things I learned growing up. Considering our mind as our primary…
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Positive feedbackloops
Personal Improvement In Taichii Onno points out there is a Time and Place for everything. While in process engineering we…
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Get the Linguist Extension for Libreoffice; Chinese Update
So I updated my Public Domain Books Gdoc to add Chinese Texts of course I’m in no vocabulary to be able…
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The action scale of time
It was in the undoing project by Michael Lewis I adopted the test: knowledge must be predictive. That knowing something…
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De Agricultura and Reengineering
Listening to reengineering by Michael hammer and de agricultura of Cato and varro has interesting contrast. One talks about post…
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What is the conditions for optimal study to practice ratio
The best in a quick (2 min search and verify) for what I’m looking for : practice to study ratio.…
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Driving More; means more time for my Text to Speech app
So I have to drive the wife more because shes at 37 weeks and I still need to “manage by…
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Good on Paper, but not Practical
As I’ve finished C in Dr. Arthur Hill’s Operations Managmeent Encyclopedia there are a lot of ideas and ideals I…
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Leaner Habits and Reflections
So I would like to have an update on my quest to make my habits leaner. Whats changed recently is…
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Motivational vs Practical Self Improvement.
How to differentiate Motivational/Inspirational vs Practical Self Improvement? This is my Tentative List. 1) Actionable. Its an action or set…
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Chinese Update, Tactics, Pinyin Keyboard, and Cal Newport
Chinese studies ran long: Decided to add more to my training. Particularly trying to make best use of the one…
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Work Update
Recent Lessons: 1) document as I go. Everything is overwhelming my capacity for attention. Its best to always document so…
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Patience
Patience noun noun: patience 1. the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset. “you…
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Distractions and focus
My main barrier of converting most of my distractions into usefully spent time is how much of start up time…
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Writing Exercises in Pleco
Tried the writing exercises. We have a writing test this June 11 and ive only managed to master 懂 because…
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Chinese Studies Update: Grammar Mastery
Basic Chinese 4 is NPCR Chapters 15-18 and about 100 words in addition. This class would benefit for ME if…
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Personal Project Tracker
I was wondering how many personal projects have slipped through the cracks. So I decided to just apply a simple…
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My Notes on Art and Artworks
These are my notes on art and being an artist. This is what I would have told my younger me…
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Flash Cards Mastery
I swallowed my pride and re-calibrated my Flashcard deck into NPCR chapter 2 (Book 1 is chapter 1-14, and the…
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Reinstalling my Pinyin Keyboard for Ubuntu 14.04
Here is the way of installing the Pinyin Keyboard for my notebook. This is based off steffan’s steps but this…
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Little Masteries, Proficiencies, High Mastery
Its annoying how “Mastery” is the word that bests describes a level of skill that can be employed almost instantly.…
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Mandarin Studies Update, Enrolling to Cycle 38
So Cycle 37 (Jan 9 to March 19) in the Confucius Institute of Ateneo in Ateneo Business School ended where I…
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the Bias we have with the Narrative of Success
Chapter 19 is Called Illusion of Understanding (In thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman). Hindsight makes mistakes appear obvious,…
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Listening at x2 speed
High Speed Audio. I first began listening to videos at x2 the speed When I first got my Audible App…
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汉语 课 Chinese Classes for a Long time.
There are Chinese classes in the Ateneo Confucius Institute of basic, intermediate, advance and practical speaking. There are about 6…
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Basis, Up2, and Fitbit Charge HR Review
Yes I wear 3 trackers. not Counting my Phone (which has Google Fit) I’ve been using fitbit for a while.…
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The HSK or the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi 汉语水平考试, Chinese learning Update.
The HSK Article in Wikipedia is very informative, I’ll be talking about that and my experience so far. I know…
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the Problem of Screening Offers
So I’m getting offers for my AEGs and they always ask for “Last Price” my counter is *“is this going…
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Chinese Classes
I’m not ready to advance to the next level of my Chinese classes but I find the schedule helpful in…