How I Learn Stuff

I had no idea Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, was such an interesting thinker. I just saw him on C-SPAN, speaking at the University of Miami. Here’s the link!

Check out these clips:

49:38 to 51:29 (on mentors and voracious self-education)

54:11 to 56:53 (on throwing away the syllabus and teaching from the authentic problems of “today”)

I can’t post anything from my book, here, but I can post new content that is similar, or that may relate to future books. Today I’ve posted the first bit of content related to a learning experience. I will be adding more as I go, and I hope readers consider offering reports of their own for me to post.

Anyway, one thing I like to do is teach young technical thinkers, and I got an opportunity to do just that, recently, at Christmas dinner. A cheesegrater broke, and we flew into action.

Here’s the report I wrote. It’s both an example of an investigative report, and a little primer on how to write one. This is worth a look if you are trying to learn how to write credible, simple reports of your cognitive exploits.