In my last blog post, I discussed my next OSSU run plan. The plan was to take 4 courses concurrently. The courses are CS50, Class-based Program Design, Software Construction, and Math for CS. After much thinking, I decided to not follow this plan anymore. I came up with a new …
It’s been about 3 months since my last blog update. Did many things that I won't discuss all of here. Some programming related but no OSSU/CS. I did take writing and speaking courses from coursera though. Also, recently wrote a review of SPD. What’s Next Next up …
I'm happy to share that I have made good progress on OSSU since I started back in October 2025! In this blog post, I will be briefly discussing the courses I took so far, along with a break-down of the time I took to complete them. Then I will talk …
I'm sure we all agree that mastering the fundamentals is important. This is true for any discipline. In this blog post, I will be sharing my learning roadmap/plan for revisiting the fundamentals of CS/Software and will discuss why I'm doing this. I will also discuss my thoughts about …
Over the past few weeks, I’ve read the book ultra learning and watched a bunch of YouTube videos about learning from learning experts. A list of all the videos I watched will be at the end of this post. I took notes on a few videos, but decided to …
Explore Outside Your Comfort Zone Results? Why, I have gotten lots of results ! I know several thousand things that won’t work. — Thomas Edison The author discusses the artist Van Gogh’s story. He started late, but still became one of the most famous painters of all time. He wasn …
Dig Deep Before Building Up “Do not ask whether a statement is true until you know what it means.” — Errett Bishop, mathematician The chapter starts off by talking about Richard Feynman, an eccentric professor and Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Many considered him a genius. Feynman could take problems others had worked …
Don’t Fill a Leaky Bucket Nigel Richards, is a multiple-time world champion in the game of Scrabble. This game requires a voluminous memory of words in a language. He doesn’t speak French but he won the French world Scrabble competition. What is Nigel Richards’s Secret? Richards loved …
Don’t Dodge the Punches The Power of Information Feedback is one of the most consistent aspects of the strategy ultra learners use. Feedback features prominently in the research on deliberate practice. In his studies, Ericsson has found that the ability to gain immediate feedback on one’s performance is …
Test to Learn We are given some background about the legendary mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The Testing Effect Testing yourself — trying to retrieve the information without looking at the text — clearly outperformed all other conditions. The act of trying to summon up knowledge from memory is a powerful learning tool on …