Timothy Kenny via s1.csa1.acemsd3.com 3:11 PM (2 hours ago) to Stevescott Welcome back to my newsletter. I revealed my favorite ChatGPT Chrome extension here -- which helps me better integrate ChatGPT into my lifelong-learning processes. The creator of this extension also writes and AI newsletter, which is worth checking out. Feel free to reply to this email with any ideas for ChatGPT related videos you’d like me to create. New ‘Documentary’ on the Autodidacticism of Malcolm X. I was amazed learned about the depth of Malcolm's reading while in prison, up to 15 hours a day, which covered subjects like: Great Books of the Western World and the Harvard Classics Series Learning Latin and German and studying etymology Reading the dictionary and encyclopedia cover to cover How he joined the prison debate team -- that went on to beat Ivy League visiting teams Smuggling legal treatises and textbooks into prison for him to read The comments have been very lively. Part 2 of this 2 part series will be coming soon. Backstory: Malcolm X was the (arguably) largest influence on President Obama’s self-education during his younger years. To quote from Obama’s first book: "I gathered up books from the library- Baldwin, Ellison, Hughes, Wright, DuBois. At night I would close the door to my room, telling my grandparents I had homework to do, and there I would sit and wrestle with words, locked in suddenly desperate argument, trying to reconcile the world as I’d found it with the terms of my birth. But there was no escape to be had. In every page of every book, in Bigger Thomas and invisible men, I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s love and Langston’s humor eventually succumbed to its corrosive force, each man finally forced to doubt art’s redemptive power, each man finally forced to withdraw, one to Africa, one to Europe, one deeper into the bowels of Harlem, but all of them in the same weary flight, all of them exhausted, bitter men, the devil at their heels. Only Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will." You can see my videos on Obama’s education here: Intro, Episode 1, featured in a previous newsletter, here. (NEW) President Obama’s Mother Ann Dunham's Education (Episode 2 of Barack Obama: Renaissance Man) (NEW) President Obama’s Father Barack Obama Sr.'s Education (Episode 3 of Barack Obama: Renaissance Man) You can also watch my new presidential series interviews below, which focus especially on the education and formative years of former presidents. Jonathan Alter - The Presidents Compared - FDR, Bushes, Clintons, Obama, Trump, Biden and More This 3h interview is the longest and most in depth interview Jonathan has ever done. He’s personally interviewed 9 of the last 10 presidents and is a 3x NYT bestselling author for his books on the presidency. This is our 2nd interview, the first was a month prior, which you can watch here, on President Carter. Watch my new interview with 2x Harvard (BA, MBA) and 1x Johns Hopkins (MD-in-progress) Cofounder and CEO of Osmosis Shiv Gaglani -- Osmosis is one of the major education companies that med students and nursing students, among others, use. They were recently acquired by Elsevier, the biggest of the Big 5 in academic publishing (Elsevier, Black & Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature and SAGE) You may also be interested in my recent 2h interview with Benjamin Keep, a Youtuber and Stanford PhD in Learning Science who advises startups on best practices (as well as tips for students) here: Benjamin Keep Interview: Learning Science Expert (Stanford PhD in Learning Science, Cornell JD) We discuss: His interest in East Asian studies including the classics of China, Japan and Korea His minimalist approach to his Tech (hardware and software) Stack His current Learning Project about learning Ancient Chinese history What he’s learned playing Chess, Go, Poker, Starcraft and Magic the Gathering And much more that you won’t find anywhere else. If you’re new to my newsletter, here’s some of my most popular videos: Recent video - Don't Fall for These 39 Neuromyths that Many Learning Experts Still Teach (Evidence-Based) This is the newest addition to the "Accelerated Learning Canon" Playlist. Check out the 10 videos below, which cover the most popular and influential books, articles, papers, videos and apps in the accelerated learning space. I’ll be updating the playlist in the future as well. If you have any suggestions, please reply directly to this email. Surrender to This Algorithm - Gary Wolf - Wired Magazine 20 Rules of Formulating Knowledge - Piotr Wozniak Deep Work - Cal Newport Spaced Repetition for Effective Learning - Gwern Branwen (most popular this week) The Janki Method - Jack Kinsella The MIT Challenge - Scott H. Young Mental Models - Farnam Street and Shane Parrish Evidence-Based Accelerated Learning - Ali Abdaal See my discussion with Danny Hatcher in the comments Augmenting Long term Memory - Michael Nielsen Lots of content in this 45m in-depth video Image Occlusion, Heatmap, Cloze Overlapper - Glutanimate - Anki Dev Timothy P.S. You can check out all my previous interviews with prominent experts in the productivity and learning space, and top people in the great books and the classics, in this Youtube Playlist. You may also like my playlist on The Education of Billionaires, Geniuses and Royalty. P.P.S. I’m doing a special deal if you buy my friend Scott H. Young’s Rapid Learning program during the current enrollment period (end Midnight PT Friday Night in about 33h). If you get any level of the 3 tiers of the course, just send me your receipt and I’ll send you a $100 gift card usable on any of my future premium courses (usable once the refund window closes on Scott’s course). [BTW, you can watch my 3h interview with Scott (the longest he’s ever done) here.]