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How to read when time is short

November 12, 2005 November 12, 2005 / My best links / 8 Comments

How to read when time is short. Read the “How To Find The Essential 20%” section carefully. Another interesting post from Bert on How to Learn More With No Extra Effort uses the principle in the post below to suggest we take a lot of breaks while learning.

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Petals Around the Rose

October 16, 2005 October 16, 2005 / My best links / 14 Comments

Petals Around the Rose. A simple dice parlour game that Bill Gates apparantly cracked by memorising the sequences.

Hitchcock film Charade is public domain

October 12, 2005 October 12, 2005 / My best links / 5 Comments

Charade starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant is now in public domain (you can download it for free). So are some other classics like His Girl Friday and Dressed to Kill. See Archive.org’s feature films. (Actually, it’s not a Hitchcock film. But it’s said to be the best Hitchcock film Hitchcock never made.)

Tough Learning

September 9, 2005 September 9, 2005 / My best links / 2 Comments

Tough learning. Excellent article (speech, actually) by a physicist on how to learn. Very readable, and has a quote I won’t forget: “A change of perception is worth 80 IQ points.”