Accelerated Learning: How Agile Can Help You?
summary
Argues that deliberate shortcuts let nonexperts get “good enough” fast: cites Josh Kaufman’s 20 hours to reach a steep learning curve and lists five actions — decide target performance, deconstruct into subskills, research just enough, remove barriers, and precommit. Shows concrete experiments: learns a ukulele song in nine hours, juggles after ~11 hours, lands a forward flip in 1h20, and maps those steps to Agile practices (vision, split backlog, prioritize, remove impediments, deliver working solution). Results are repeatable, low-cost, and practice-driven.
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chapters (34)
- 0:00Warm up
- 5:30Clap
- 11:30What else
- 13:50Learning new skills
- 15:05TED Talks
- 15:45Josh Kaufman
- 18:50The first 20 hours
- 19:45Decide what you want
- 20:30Subskills
- 21:40Research
- 23:00Remove barriers
- 24:15Practice at least 20 hours
- 25:00Learn new things
- 28:35Time is relative
- 29:50The 5 steps
- 31:00Overview
- 31:15Examples
- 32:00Metallica
- 32:35Golf
- 33:05Tim Ferriss
- 33:55Arvind Subramanian
- 34:30Jim Quick
- 35:10Books
- 35:40Books that help
- 36:55String game
- 42:15Level of knowledge
- 43:05Example
- 43:20Carol Dweck
- 43:57Code Time
- 44:50Agile Mindset
- 48:12Five steps
- 48:40Ukulele
- 50:40Singing
- 53:20Recent Skills
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