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Master How To Learn
Personal blog · masterhowtolearn.comproductivitywriting
Master How To Learn is a personal blog at masterhowtolearn.com about productivity and writing. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Why Books Don't Work: Constructivism over Transmissionism”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters discuss its posts on spaced repetition and incremental note-taking, comparing SuperMemo with Anki. The comments describe the method rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about learning how to learn
Most-linked posts?
- Why Books Don't Work: Constructivism over Transmissionism2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-21
- Why I Switched to SuperMemo After Using Anki 5 Years, 50k Cards and 420k Reps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-22
What Hacker News says?
It is the process you broadly describe, and more. I use it and it has turned addictive. The very registration of texts into a priority queue (SuperMemo implementation) relieves from stress inherent to keeping reviews of high volumes of possibly disparate, disconnected, badly formulated, texts, prior to properly formulating them in active-recall form (usually question and answer pairs), to commit them to memory. Beca…
Comment linking /2019-08-06-supermemos-incremental-reading-explained/
on “Incremental note-taking”Submitted I No Longer Tell My Friends about Anki/SuperMemo as a story · 64 points
HN discussionOver a decade ago prominent members of the Lojban language community enthusiatically pushed use of SuperMemo over other solutions (the majority based on the Leitner box metaphor). In particular, they recommended the edition for Palm instead of desktop SuperMemo (and recommended running it under a Palm emulator). Not embracing Anki was a combination of its relatively little popularity then, and disinterest for Japane…
Comment linking /2018-10-28-why-i-switched-to-supermemo/
on “The Main Reason You Should Switch from Anki to SuperMemo”Submitted Why Books Don't Work: Constructivism over Transmissionism as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Books Don't Work: Constructivism over Transmissionism (2021) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incremental Reading: Reading 10 Books at the Same Time (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Significance of Incremental Reading in SuperMemo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why SuperMemo thrashes any note-taking system as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Switched to SuperMemo After Using Anki 5 Years, 50k Cards and 420k Reps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incremental Reading: Reading 10 Books at the Same Time (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Switched to Obsidian After Using SuperMemo for 4 Years as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whether to Use Anki or SuperMemo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why SuperMemo/Anki Is More Than a Memorization Tool (1) Introduction as a story · 1 points
HN discussion