Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

How you learn new technology and acquire new skills is key to your personal success. But how do you learn how to learn? What tricks tips can you use to learn more faster, and retain more of what you learn?

Join Andy Hunt for a presentation that includes a brief recap of The Dreyfus Model (from his popular talk "Herding Racehorses and Racing Sheep") and see how to learn more deliberately by managing your Knowledge Portfolio. We’ll explore practical learning techniques including mind maps, reading techniques, and situational feedback, and how these fit it to the cognitive model discussed in "Refactoring Your Wetware". We’ll also examine how to best cope with the literal torrent of new information that assaults each of us, using methods ranging from the tried-and-true to the truly exotic.

You’ll also learn one proven technique that will improve your daily productivity by 20%-30%.

Part 2 of 2, 90 minutes.

Continued from Refactoring your Wetware.

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