Intellectual Production of Engineers 2 Tiers Table of Contents
The table of contents is expanded to two levels.
Chapter 1: How to Learn Something New 1
Learning Cycle 2
Driving force behind the cycle: Motivation 7
Three ways to gather information 15
What is Abstract 29
How to abstract 39
Verification 44
Summary 47
Chapter 2: How to motivate 49
65% of unmotivated people are not able to focus on one task 50
Prioritization" is a difficult task in itself 55
Motivate one task 67
Summary 74
Chapter 3: How to Train Your Memory 75
How memory works 76
What Memory and Muscle Have in Common 79
Becomes stronger with repeated use 84
Output exercises memory 86
Interval repetition method that prolongs knowledge 91
Summary 101
Chapter 4: How to Read Efficiently 103
What is "reading?" 104
What is your usual reading speed? 108
How to "find" readings in less than 2 seconds per page 115
Over 3 minutes per page to "assemble" readings 126
Designing the Task of Reading 133
Summary 141
Chapter 5: How to organize your thoughts 143
Too much information? Too little? 144
How to organize too much information 149
Tuning for Working People 170
It is important to repeat the process 173
Summary 177
Chapter 6: How to Come Up with Ideas 179
Coming up with ideas" is a big, vague task 180
First, gather information 187
Polishing 208
Summary 219
Chapter 7: How to Decide What to Learn 221
What is the right thing to learn? 222
Self-Management Strategies 228
Creating Knowledge 243
3 levels
Chapter 1: How to Learn Something New 1
Learning Cycle 2
Information Gathering 3
Modeling and Abstraction 3
Practice/Verification 5
Driving force behind the cycle: Motivation 7
Differences between learning as a student and learning from college 7
How to stay motivated? 10
Should I re-enter college? 12
Tips for finding good reference books 13
Tips for choosing paper reference books 14
Three ways to gather information 15
From where you want to know 16
Prerequisites for learning from what you want to know 18
Roughly 20
From one end to the other 25
What is Abstract 29
abstract 30
Models & Models 31
Module 32
Model View Controller 33
Finding Patterns 34
Design Patterns 35
Why is abstraction necessary? 37
How to abstract 39
Compare and learn 39
Learning from History 42
Learning from Pattern Books 43
Verification 44
Made and verified 45
Verified by testing 46
Areas of Difficulty in Verification 47
Summary 47
Chapter 2: How to motivate 49
65% of unmotivated people are not able to focus on one task 50
Let's first get the big picture to narrow it down 51
Getting Things Done: Gathering It All First 51
Collect them all and process them afterwards 52
How do you choose one task 53
Prioritization" is a difficult task in itself 55
Sorting computation 55
Cannot compare large and small without one dimension 56
What is the magnitude of the uncertainty? 57
Prioritize important matters 62
Don't try to set priorities now 66
Motivate one task 67
Tasks are too large 67
Time Box 68
Summary 74
Chapter 3: How to Train Your Memory 75
How memory works 76
Hippocampus 76
People who have had their hippocampus removed 77
Morris water maze 77
There is more than one kind of memory 78
What Memory and Muscle Have in Common 79
Synapses that carry signals 80
Long-term potentiation of synapses 82
First, make it in a way that is easy to disappear, and then gradually change to a method that lasts longer 83
Becomes stronger with repeated use 84
Output exercises memory 86
Testing is a means of memory 86
Test and then learn more 87
Not confident, but high grades 87
Adaptive boosting 88
Fast test cycle 90
Interval repetition method that prolongs knowledge 91
Review after forgetting 91
Leitner System 92
Ease of the problem 93
20 Rules for Structuring Knowledge 94
Anki 95
Automatic adjustment of difficulty 96
Create your own teaching materials 97
Summary 101
Chapter 4: How to Read Efficiently 103
What is "reading?" 104
Purpose of reading books 104
Types and speed of "reading" 108
What is your usual reading speed? 108
Pyramid of reading speed 109
Where is the bottleneck? 110
The Suffering of Speed Reading 112
Not read 113
How to "find" readings in less than 2 seconds per page 115
Whole Mind System 117
Focused Reading 120
Attention to headings, etc. 123
Over 3 minutes per page to "assemble" readings 126
How to Read Philosophy Books 126
Spend 40 hours per book to read 128
How to read a math book 130
Designing the Task of Reading 133
Understanding is an Uncertain Task 133
Reading is a means, not an end 134
Creating Materials for Review 137
Summary 141
Chapter 5: How to organize your thoughts 143
Too much information? Too little? 144
Check the amount of information using the write-out method 145
How to organize too much information 149
Line them up for better listing 149
Record as soon as you think of it in the process of arranging 152
Move the possibly related items closer together 152
Group formation requires a change in thinking 155
What is a relationship 160
Bundled, fronted, and compressed 162
Spread the bundled fusions out again 169
Written output 169
Tuning for Working People 170
Omission of step 171
Interruptible design 171
How to organize A4 documents 172
It is important to repeat the process 173
Repeat KJ method 174
Repeat triggers 174
Incremental Improvements 174
Regroup past output 175
Electronic 176
Summary 177
Chapter 6: How to Come Up with Ideas 179
Coming up with ideas" is a big, vague task 180
Three phases of coming up with ideas 180
The Predecessor's Way of Thinking 181
First, gather information 187
Exploring Within Yourself 187
How to encourage language 188
Somatic sensation 191
Parables, Metaphors, and Analogies 194
What has not yet been put into words 200
Summary of Linguistics 207
Polishing 208
Minimum feasible product 208
Climbing the U curve 210
Other People's Perspectives Matter 212
Learn from anyone 213
Build a time machine. 215
Plowing again 217
Summary 219
Chapter 7: How to Decide What to Learn 221
What is the right thing to learn? 222
Mathematical Correctness 222
Differences in Correctness between Science and Mathematics 224
Correctness of Decision Making 226
Self-Management Strategies 228
Search strategy to find a subject to learn 229
Using Knowledge for Expansion and Reproduction Strategies 230
Differentiation Strategies for Excellence 231
Differentiation Strategies through Combination 235
Trade Commercial Strategies for Knowledge Across Organizational Boundaries 240
Creating Knowledge 243
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