Why Invest in Learning?

Learning is no longer something that stops when you graduate. Life long learning is a valuable skill because of:

• Economics: Average is over. But even if the economic landscape is rapidly changing may, we can engineer our response to it by aggressively learning the hard skills we need to thrive.
• Education: Ultralearning can fill some of those gaps when going back to school isn’t an affordable option.
• Technology: The space of learning possibilities is immense, just waiting for ambitious autodidacts to come up with new ways to exploit it.

Distractions (a lot of them driven by technology) are the biggest blockers in the way of your knowledge accumulation. What to focus on?

• Your environment: be aware of what environment you work best in, and test it. Multitasking may feel like fun, but it’s unsuitable for...