Welcome to the School section - a carefully curated collection of the most valuable educational content from across the internet. Here you’ll find resources that truly matter for understanding the world, developing skills, and expanding your mind.
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” - Benjamin Franklin
One of the most valuable lectures ever recorded at MIT - Patrick Winston’s legendary “How to Speak” talk that he gave annually for over 40 years.
Your ability to speak effectively is perhaps the greatest multiplier of your knowledge and ideas. Patrick Winston, MIT professor who taught AI and cognitive science, understood that brilliant ideas mean nothing if you can’t communicate them.
Richard Feynman wasn’t just a Nobel Prize-winning physicist - he was one of history’s greatest learners and teachers. His technique for understanding complex topics is deceptively simple yet profoundly effective.
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
The Feynman Technique exposes the gaps in your knowledge by forcing you to teach what you think you know.
Write the concept at the top of a blank page. Be specific.
Charlie Munger said: “80 or 90 important models will carry about 90% of the freight in making you a worldly-wise person.” Here are the essential mental models that will upgrade your thinking.
Mental models are simplified representations of how the world works. They’re the thinking tools that help you understand life, make decisions, and solve problems.
Think of them as apps for your brain - each one helps you process certain types of information more effectively.
In a world of infinite distractions, the ability to focus deeply on cognitively demanding tasks is becoming both increasingly rare and increasingly valuable. Cal Newport calls this “Deep Work” - and it might be the most important skill you develop.
Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.
A brilliant thread from @meetstef on why mastering fundamentals before frameworks is the key to long-term success in tech.
Stop chasing frameworks. Start building foundations.
The tech industry’s obsession with the latest tools is backwards. True expertise comes from understanding the principles beneath the tools.
Only now should you learn specific implementations.