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Source: Sphero Blog, STEM education article Raw file: raw/6 Examples of Algorithms In Everyday Life.md Contributors quoted: Laurie Guyon NY Model Schools Coordi

This timeline report is best read as a history of platform coevolution. Rather than telling the story of the App Store alone, it tracks how Apple and Google kep

Author: Barbara Oakley Published: 2014, Penguin Subtitle: How to Excel at Math and Science Even if You Flunked Algebra A practical guide to learning math and sc

Source: Khan Academy / LSAT prep series Raw file: raw/A quick guide to conditional logic Khan Academy.md A reference guide for translating 14 common prose phras

Author: Justin Skycak Format: Working draft collection of essays/passages Domain: Skill development, learning science, career, motivation A collection of short,

Source: https://github.com/multicaai/andrejkarpathyskills Local ingest snapshot: cloned on 20260521. Important files inspected: README.md, CLAUDE.md, CURSOR.md,

Uncommon Core podcast ~October 2020. Hasu sits down with Light, an anonymous prop trader who moved from equities and options through poker into crypto, and Su Z

Author: James Clear Type: Book — behavior change and habit formation 2018, 320pp Habits are the compound interest of selfimprovement. Getting 1% better each day

This TED talk by Eli Pariser argues that the web's personalization systems do not just make information more convenient. They quietly narrow it. The talk's cent

This is the transcript of Brené Brown's RSA Animate video on the difference between empathy and sympathy. Brené draws on the work of nursing scholar Theresa Wis

This MDN primer is a beginnerfacing webliteracy page about the ordinary things people touch before they ever write code: browsers, web pages, websites, web serv

Elizabeth Cox builds this essay around Dorothy Kenyon and the paranoia of McCarthyism to explain a simple but destructive mistake: treating a claim as credible

Elizabeth Cox uses the Virginia Military Institute admissions case to show how circular reasoning hides inside respectable language. Her target is not the carto

Elizabeth Cox uses the climatechange debate to explain why analogy can clarify a problem without proving anything about its cause. Her target is a familiar skep

Elizabeth Cox tells the story of childbed fever to show how easily people confuse correlation with causation, especially when they are staring at a vivid sympto

Elizabeth Cox uses the Missouri Compromise to challenge the comforting idea that the wisest position is usually somewhere in the middle. Her point is sharper th

Elizabeth Cox uses Eisenhower's domino theory about Vietnam to explain why a scary chain of consequences is not the same as an inevitable one. The point of the

This Crash Course episode builds a full argument that credibility on the modern web is usually discovered somewhere other than the page you're reading. Its meth

Source: Let's Talk Science letstalkscience.ca, 2020 Format: Educational explainer with framework diagrams and visual icons Scope: Full 3layer CT framework — 9 P

Source: Khan Academy / LSAT prep series Raw file: raw/Conditional reasoning and logical equivalence Khan Academy.md Identifies the four variations of a conditio

APA Speaking of Psychology podcast episode with John Kounios, professor of psychology at Drexel University. Kounios has spent two decades using brain imaging to

Author: Samantha Agoos Type: Practical guide / educational essay Critical thinking is presented as a disciplined method for making decisions that are more evide

Author: Fidenza Macro Type: Essay — for otherwiseprofitable traders who gave back meaningful gains Trading has no checkpoints. Unlike most professions, an ent

This is a blog post on remon.design offering practical advice for designers on developing the capacity to recognize and appreciate good visual design. The autho

TED2006 talk by Sir Ken Robinson, the mostwatched TED talk ever recorded. Robinson's argument is that creativity is not a rare gift unevenly distributed — it is

This guide treats internet search as a layered method with three distinct phases: tool selection, query construction, and result evaluation. Its main claim is t

This instructional video frames figurative language as the point where words stop meaning only what they literally say and start carrying comparison, implicatio

Source: raw/first principles thinking how to see what everyone else misses ingested.md Core concept: concepts/firstprinciplesthinking This essay argues that mos

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Fooled by Randomness is a practitionerphilosopher attack on the human tendency to mistake luck for skill, narrative for explanation, and

A 119page visual retrospective PDF compiled from entities/GCR's @GiganticRebirth / @GCRClassic public tweets, Discord and Telegram messages, position screenshot

An Arkham Intelligence profile of entities/GCR @GiganticRebirth, covering his full career from early 2021 through early 2025. Draws on onchain data ezekielx.eth

This TED talk argues against the lazy slogan that "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." Glenn Greenwald reframes privacy not as a shield for

This instructional chapter explains search engines as useful but nonneutral intermediaries. It gives the beginner version of how crawling, indexing, ranking, ad

Angela Duckworth's TED talk is an argument that longrun success depends on more than intelligence. Her candidate variable is grit: sustained passion and perseve

This short explainer draws the cleanest baseline distinction in the whole mindset literature: people with a growth mindset treat intelligence as developable, wh

This guide is built around one distinction: search engines retrieve, while AI assistants generate. The interface is starting to blur, but the underlying jobs ar

This is the transcript of Jonathan Juravich's TEDEd Educator Talk on teaching empathy as an actionable skill rather than a soft skill or catchphrase. Juravich,

This TEDEd explainer teaches the three basic learning modes that sit under much of modern machine learning: unsupervised learning, supervised learning, and rein

This short TEDEd explainer shows how falsehoods acquire the appearance of verification through repetition. Its central concept is circular reporting: one public

This MDN article takes the vague experience of "opening a website" and decomposes it into a small chain of technical events: client, server, DNS lookup, TCP/IP

Author: Dan Koe Type: Newsletter / essay Articulation isn't a talent — it's a learnable skill built through repeated writing and speaking. The prerequisite: d

TED2012 talk by David Kelley, founder of IDEO and the Stanford d.school. Delivered partly from personal experience — including a cancer diagnosis that clarified

Author: robotjames New Zealandbased discretionary trader, Substack Type: Longform essay — practical trading framework This essay is really a field guide to tr

This Excelsior OWL video presents the KIM chart as a lightweight structured notebook for vocabulary growth. KIM stands for Key Word, Information, and Memory Cue

This video pushes vocabulary work beyond bare definitions by treating each new word as the center of a small semantic network. A word web places the target word

Author: robotjames Type: Trading essay / practical market microstructure guide The essay extends the earlier edge material by arguing that small traders do not

This short Excelsior OWL video treats vocabulary growth as something that should leave physical study artifacts behind. Its recommendation is as simple as possi

This source pushes back against the easy slogan that failure automatically teaches. Its central claim is narrower and more useful: people often want to learn fr

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren treat reading as an active art rather than a passive intake process. The book's central claim is that most people never

This instructional video from the Excelsior University Online Writing Lab treats unfamiliar vocabulary as a reading problem that can often be solved before a di

This Excelsior OWL explainer approaches unfamiliar vocabulary from inside the word itself. Instead of searching the surrounding sentence for clues, it asks the

Dale Carnegie's 1936 classic is the foundational text on interpersonal skills. It argues that the ability to deal with people is the single most important facto

Author: Dan Koe Type: Newsletter essay The information environment is being poisoned by "fast content" optimized for engagement rather than thinking. Essays —

Source: Khan Academy — LSAT prep article Format: Educational article with worked examples ~1000 words Scope: Conditional statements; sufficient vs. necessary co

This source is a teaching document built to make one distinction stick: inductive reasoning moves from repeated observations toward a probable generalization, w

This Statista infographic frames the App Store less as a software catalog and more as an economic infrastructure layer. The image itself matters because it is n

Justin Skycak's Introduction to Algorithms and Machine Learning: from Sorting to Strategic Agents is a 424page exercisedriven curriculum built out of Math Acade

Source: raw/Karpathy's CLAUDE.md hit 1 ingested.md This clipped thread argues that a projectroot instruction file can turn AI coding from repeated reexplanation

This instructional explainer presents inferencing as the act of drawing a conclusion from evidence, background knowledge, and reasoning. Its main teaching move

This library guide presents Mike Caulfield's SIFT method as a fourstep routine for evaluating claims before accepting or sharing them. The guide opens with an i

Author: Unknown crypto/trading Substack Type: Shortform numbered lessons 27 distilled observations from a professional trader. Covers the nature of edge, team d

Source: QCAA Digital Solutions Unit 1 Topic 1 — Computational Thinking YouTube Format: Lecture video with slides ~7.5 minutes; transcript + five slide screensho

Author: entities/charlesmunger edited by Peter D. Kaufman Published: 2005 expanded edition Format: Collection of talks, speeches, and biographical material A co

Author: Anonymous personal essay Type: Reflective essay The essay is about what it feels like to discover the global scoreboard early while being born far outsi

Source: freeCodeCamp — Learn Python v9, Review Python Basics module Type: Structured reference / cheat sheet A generalpurpose, dynamicallytyped, interpreted l

Source: freeCodeCamp — Learn Python v9, Loops and Sequences module Companion to: sources/pythonbasicsreview Ordered, mutable, zerobased indexed. Can hold mixe

Source: raw/Ramping Your Coding Output with OpenAI's Codex ingested.md Author: Unknown, associated with PostFiat community Entity: entities/openaicodex This sou

Author: Edwin Lefevre ghostwritten; subject is entities/JesseLivermore Annotated edition: Jon D. Markman Wiley, 2010 Original publication: 1923 serialized in Th

Author: Farnam Street fs.blog Type: Mental model explainer A thinking tool for examining longterm consequences. Moving past the immediate, obvious result of a d

Source: Leopold Aschenbrenner Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead June 2024, ~165 pages Entity: entities/leopoldaschenbrenner Context: Written by a former O

Author: Dan Koe Type: Newsletter essay AI is compounding faster than previous technological shifts. The gap between early adopters and waiters is no longer line

This Excelsior OWL video argues that every field develops its own working language, and that learning a subject means partly learning how that subject names the

This EFF guide is not mainly a tool list. It is a practical operating model for digital security built around threat modeling. Its repeated claim is that securi

Yanis Varoufakis wrote this 2018 book as a direct explanation of capitalism for young readers, but its ambition is larger than that description makes it sound.

Source: The Bowers Institute at The Tech thetech.org/bowersinstitute, 4page educator handout Format: Visual reference card with tables, facilitative tips, and c

Source: Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness Primary entity: entities/navalravikant Format: Curated collection of Nav

This Apple retrospective tells the story of the App Store as both softwaredistribution infrastructure and economic engine. Its main claim is that the App Store

Source: Howard Marks — The Complete Collection Oaktree Capital client memos, 1990–2025 Entity: entities/howardmarks Format: 100+ individual memos written ov

Author: Anonymous Bloomberg Beta investor Type: Essay — career strategy in the AI era The AI era is creating a Kcurve divergence in tech careers: those who re

Ionica Smeets's TEDx talk is a short primer on correlation vs causality: one of the most common reasoning mistakes is treating correlation as if it were already

Author: Unknown crypto/trading Substack Type: Essay — quantitative + cultural analysis The central insight: a game with positive arithmetic expected value can

Source: Khan Academy / LSAT prep series Raw file: raw/The Logic of If vs. Only if Khan Academy.md "If" and "only if" sound nearly identical but point in opposit

Source: Howard Marks The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor 2013 Entity: entities/howardmarks Related source: sources/

Eduardo Briceno's TEDx talk argues that success is not mainly driven by effort, focus, or persistence in isolation. Those matter, but in his framing they are do

Carol Dweck's TED talk is a compact argument for one idea: students change when difficulty stops meaning "I am dumb" and starts meaning "I am learning." The tal

APA Monitor on Psychology article by Kirra Weir 2022, surveying where creativity research stands after a generation of neuroimaging. The article pulls together

This Crash Course episode treats the World Wide Web as a history rather than a definition. Starting from an idea in 1945 and ending with an ongoing governance d

Author: Erick Wilberding Type: Educational essay The essay argues that the Socratic method is one of the strongest tools for improving critical thought because

This is the transcript of Don Norman's 2003 TED talk exploring how design engages emotion at three levels — visceral, behavioral, and reflective — and why desig

Author: Unknown crypto/trading Substack; HFT background Type: Essay — personal + quantitative Time is better measured in events than in objective clocktime. T

Author: Harvard Business Review article Type: Management / problemsolving article Teams often rush into solution mode before they have defined the problem well

Source: EasyTech / learning.com Format: Educational article originally October 2022, updated January 2025 Scope: Conceptual primer on abstraction in CT — one se

Source: interactiondesign.org — 5 Whyshttps://www.interactiondesign.org/literature/topics/5whys Clipped: 20260603 A definition page on the 5 Whys rootcause tech

Source: BBC Bitesize, KS3 Computer Science Revision Raw file: raw/What is abstraction Abstraction KS3 Computer Science Revision.md !abstractioncornerstone.png A

Source: BBC Bitesize, KS3 Computer Science Revision Raw file: raw/What is an algorithm Algorithms KS3 Computer Science Revision.md !algorithmbrain.png Algorithm

Source: BBC Bitesize, KS3 Computer Science Revision Raw file: raw/What is computational thinking Introduction to computational thinking KS3 Computer Science Rev

Source: BBC Bitesize — KS3 Computer Science Revision Format: Short educational explainer ~600 words, UK secondaryschool level Scope: Definition of decomposition

Source: BBC Bitesize, KS3 Computer Science Revision Raw file: raw/What is evaluation Evaluating solutions KS3 Computer Science Revision.md !evaluationdeveloper.

An IxDF explainer on iterative development in UX design, drawing on video commentary from Laura Klein, Alan Dix, Frank Spillers, William Hudson, Morgane Peng, a

Source: BBC Bitesize — KS3 Computer Science Revision Format: Short educational explainer ~600 words, UK secondaryschool level Scope: Definition, cats example, t

This guide argues that generative AI failure is not one problem but at least two structurally different ones: hallucinations and bias. It is strongest when it s