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		<title>who put their tao in my blues?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For about the past six months I&#8217;ve been doing lots of blues dancing.  It&#8217;s been a great experience; it&#8217;s good to get back to simply moving after years spent mostly coding or studying. During the best nights of blues dancing I notice that my mind is quite clear, and my place in the world is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tehgeekmeister.com/?p=78</link>
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		<title>2010 will be a year of more blogging and more coding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be resuming my blogging here, however there will not be a set schedule.  Part of what I found difficult in the past was that I don&#8217;t have enough to say on one topic to post regularly, and I don&#8217;t want to post something that&#8217;s not worth it.  I&#8217;ve got a few posts in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tehgeekmeister.com/?p=73</link>
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		<title>work comes first</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be back to posting, I suspect, this time next week.  Or the week after at the latest.  I may share some links and little tidbits in the meantime.   Between seventy hour weeks and a newly developed cold, I am quite out of it. I do have some interesting posts coming up, though, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tehgeekmeister.com/?p=65</link>
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		<title>some mindset hacks (and other stuff)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I expect this will be a recurring theme.  Today, however, I only have three mindset hacks to offer. believing you can grow means you will I&#8217;m still reading Carol Dweck&#8217;s book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, which is all about this.  I&#8217;ve covered the basics in an earlier post, but here&#8217;s another quick run [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tehgeekmeister.com/?p=63</link>
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		<title>i got nothing.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to temporarily cut the posting schedule back to once a week, next real post will be next friday.  This is because I just don&#8217;t have as much to share as I expected, and I&#8217;m busy enough as it is with work.  Also, I prefer more fully developed posts, and I think they&#8217;ll be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tehgeekmeister.com/?p=60</link>
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		<title>memorize the mundane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A common theme is developing, so I thought I&#8217;d point it out. The lessons I&#8217;m sharing are from my own mistakes, entirely. In this case, the mistake was neglecting to fully grok the trig functions and identities while trying to learn calculus. Now, whether you choose to fully understand trig before you work on calculus, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tehgeekmeister.com/?p=58</link>
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		<title>&quot;the downward spiral&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Downward Spiral Today&#8217;s post is inspired both by the current state of my own autodidactic adventures, and chapter six in The Art of Learning , &#8220;The Downward Spiral.&#8221;  This quote from it should give you an idea what it&#8217;s about: &#8220;In every discipline, the ability to be clearheaded, present, cool under fire is much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tehgeekmeister.com/?p=53</link>
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		<title>what i&#039;m reading and being honest about your shortcomings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin.  It&#8217;s a wonderful book if you&#8217;re interested in learning, I think.  I&#8217;m enjoying it very much. In the first few chapters I was made aware of research I have read about in a few places, but never looked into much.  The short and sweet of it is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tehgeekmeister.com/?p=50</link>
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		<title>one slight change makes a big difference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One deceptively slight change to the naive autodidact algorithm can make a huge difference.  It&#8217;s actually not a radically different algorithm, but the productivity gain is immense.  Also, using this approach will feel a lot better. Instead of looking up whatever you need to in the process of your studying, do an initial pass through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tehgeekmeister.com/?p=47</link>
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		<title>the naive autodidact algorithm (or the stupidest way to teach yourself that will work)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to teach myself things all my life.  Something I&#8217;ve often done, out of impatience or lack of humility, is to overlook prerequisites.  I&#8217;ll be reading something, run across a term I don&#8217;t understand and think &#8220;well I&#8217;m smart, i can just skip looking that up.&#8221; THAT&#8217;S WRONG.  I don&#8217;t care how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tehgeekmeister.com/?p=40</link>
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