Chief Quant, Director of Analytics at Math Academy. Posts about learning, upskilling, math education, Math Academy, and more generally, stages 2-3 of Bloom's talent development process in hierarchical skill domains.
New on JustinMath.com - Worst Studying Mistake; Why I Quit Tech to Tutor; YouTube Thought I Was a Gym Owner
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Hey! You're receiving this email because you requested to be notified about new posts at JustinMath.com. Here are 3 new posts: One of the WORST Mistakes You Can Make While Studying ~100 words Why I Quit My Data Science Job to Tutor Full Time ~300 words • I identified my North Star and followed it. One of the best decisions I’ve ever made. For a While, YouTube Thought I Was a Gym Owner ~500 words • Math Academy is the digital, cognitive equivalent of a physical gym. And a new podcast: Building Without Bloat - Math Academy Podcast #5, Part 1
What we covered:
– Any successful endeavor requires a great team: capable people, who like and trust each other, and have complementary skillsets and ways of thinking. Some modes of thinking cannot be performed at the same time within a single brain.
– Accountability requires control. You can’t hold someone responsible for outcomes unless you also give them control over the system that produces those outcomes (though you can set reasonable operational boundaries).
– Solve today’s problems today. Smart people can invent endless hypotheticals and build giant solutions to fake problems. Not only does this waste time, but it also burdens the system with complexity that becomes a future straitjacket. Everything you build must be carried forward, so focus on what’s present in front of you, not on imagined futures five steps away.
– In a scaling system, the sheer volume of interactions will expose a long tail of bizarre scenarios, almost like rare diseases you’d never anticipate. Users will often try to repurpose software beyond its design, like hauling a trailer with a motorcycle.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
03:48 - The importance of finding your complements
24:07 - The origin story of Math Academy's content team
43:36 - No meta-work; just solve the problems in front of you
54:26 - Jason time vs real time (real time is longer)
59:00 - The long tail of rare edge cases and unexpected user behavior
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Justin Skycak
Chief Quant, Director of Analytics at Math Academy. Posts about learning, upskilling, math education, Math Academy, and more generally, stages 2-3 of Bloom's talent development process in hierarchical skill domains.
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