25 ways to feed your endlessly curious mind

what happens when you give yourself a reading list nobody asked for.

25 ways to feed your endlessly curious mind

TL;DR

  • The author felt overwhelmed by the pace of information consumption, leading to a lack of deep engagement with learning.
  • A personal syllabus was created to foster slow, deliberate learning with primary texts, long lectures, handwritten notes, and phone-free evenings.
  • The syllabus includes a diverse range of resources from tech blogs and videos to digital journalism, history, and design.
  • The goal is to enjoy the process of studying and learning without the pressure of external validation or measurable output.
  • Key resources mentioned include "The Illustrated Transformer" by Jay Alammar, Andrej Karpathy's "Let's build GPT", The Pudding, and "Going Medieval" by Eleanor Janega.