#+TITLE: Learning

• Things I'd like to learn:

So many things!

Design: Frameworks for effective design, colour, typography, language of critique, Compassionate UX and generous interfaces.

Marketing/Sales: Doing this in a human way which isn't manipulative but is still effective.

Software development: Always looking to improve and grow - patterns/languages/mental models

Philosophy: I'm generally a Christian Stoic - love exploring and thinking about how our thinking shapes our worlds, thinking deeply about how we can work for equity and justice.

Storytelling: I'm an Irish man who loves a good yarn - I love playing Dungeons and Dragons and creating shared narratives - I'd love to learn how to do this more effectively, maybe more spontaneously - I have to do a lot of prep for stories and rarely remember a good story for an appropriate opportunity.

Campaigning/Advocacy: I'd love to have a better framework to know how to support causes that matter effectively. I don't want to be an armchair, social-media survey filler. Thinking deeply about BLM and how I can support the reformation of systemically racist systems is largely in my mind at the moment. I'm self-educating but I'd love to be equipped with more tools

Hobbies/party tricks: Love it all :)

Art & Film: I'm a Mathematician and often struggle with pieces in which not a lot happens. I would love to be able to appreciate slower forms of art, my visits to galleries always feel cursory - again frameworks for thinking, mental models, ways to explore and language to express thought in these areas would be helpful to explore for me.

Languages: I'm a native English speaker with very little other language experience (French to 16, Latin to 18). That makes me feel lazy and over-priveledged. I'd love to decide on a language to learn and a group to learn it with.

Nature: I'm working at the moment of learning birds from their song and trying to identify food for foraging. I'd love to journey with others on this.

Other: Seriously - I love learning and if there a group of learners around something I'm up for it :)

blog_post_ideas

• How do we learn?
• Building on my 3 pillars
• Feedback loops
• Does anyone have a map?
• Linking
• Where are the gaps? What is missing? - How do you fill them in?
• JIT
• Do you know your times tables? - Value of rote learning
  • Working memory
  • Connections/patterns
• Biting of enough to chew - Goldilock's learning journeys * The size of our learning tasks
  • Too big, too small, just right
• Start at the end
  • UbD - Outcome driven learning
• Look what I made! * Building
  • Craftsmanship
• We're all in this together!
  • Learning cohorts
  • Value of group support and shared journeying
  • Why they work/fail
• Learning as an expert
  • Beginners mind
  • Starting again
• Single-tasking \
  • Anti-multi-tasking
  • Strategies -> pomodoro
  • Mutually supporting tasks
  • Attention available matched with attention required.
• Interleaving
• Spaced Repetition
• Can we not just Google it?
• Active learning
• Learning styles
• What's the point of conference talks?
• Note-taking as a way of life.