Podcasts


Golden Nuggets Podcast #35: Optimizing learning efficiency at Math Academy
2.5h on 2024-09-11. Why are people quitting their jobs to study math? How to study math like an olympic athlete? Why achieving automaticity in low-level skills is a necessary for creativity. Why it's still necessary to learn math in a world with AI. Raising our abstraction ceilings. How much faster and more efficiently we can learn math. Math Academy's vision and roadmap.

Scraping Bits Podcast #102: Learning Mathematics Like an Athlete
1h on 2024-09-04. My background; why learn advanced math early; thinking mathematically; a "mathematical" / "first principles" approach to getting in shape with minimalist strength training; benefits of building up knowledge from scratch & how to motivate yourself to do that; goal-setting & gamification in math & fitness; maintaining motivation by looking back at long-term progress (what used to be hard is now easy); traits of successful math learners; how does greatness arise & what are some multipliers on one's chance of achieving it; how to build habits, solidify them into your identity, and have fun with it.

Cicero D99 Road to Reading Podcast
2024-09-02. To be released.