Do It All Yourself

In the age of the internet, it's easy as fuarrrk to get information on anything. Some of us find ourselves routinely scraping, scanning, downloading books after books, videos after videos. I have about 140GB of such, on a variety of topic. >inb4 you will never read it all Yeah, and that's why I am looking for efficient ways to use most of this knowledge. I am from a STEM background (computer science), so I have some good basics. How could someone proceed to learn efficiently subjects ranging from electronics and computer science, to chemistry and gardening, psychology, and other soykaf ? The purpose of learning those subjects is to be self-reliant, and also because it's fun. A good way to learn would ideally have at least a bit of fun in it (no matter your motivation, there is no way you will keep reading dozen of books if those are boring to tears AND you have a daily live too), start with subjects that are in common with a lot of others so you are winning time, find ways to practice and still learn theory in the same day... How would you lains do ? I can share some of that knowledge ofc.

First of all, stop believing you can download data into your brain like you can a hard drive.

>>2138 Done. Next ?

>>2139 The point was, stop compiling massive amounts of media you are never going to scratch the surface of. Time spent collecting and sorting all that stuff is time that could be spent reading some of it.

>>2140 this, but also you have to learn that most books, can be understand without a full reading, I have read a lot of guides for smuggling, or doing with police in a 10 minutes as I just searched for actual information that was given (that goes for self-help books, and other guide books if they are not too deep). and also just pick a topic you are interested in and if it is something more complicated (STEM stuff, advanced humanities) then yeah sit on it, but never expect you will be done with it.

This is something I think about a lot, but I don't really know how to address the time management and sustained focus. I think you'd be interested in a speed-reading technology called spritz. http://spritzinc.com/ I have my doubts about how effective this can be, but it's the best tool I've found.

140gb? Pleb. I've got a TB full of stuff. We're in the age of 4tb ssds on the cheap. Time to update. Stop storing outdated text, and start storing video. Easier to consume, and faster. I have 10gb of survival text, and 100gb of survival instruction video. Learn a little python and start using the youtube-dl library. Also, don't waste time with things that will be out of date in a year or two. Things like certifications, programming, etc, just learn it when you need it. 24 hours, a pot of coffee and a bucket of L-theanine and you can pick up just about anything.

>>2155 Any good sources? I know the mainstream free libraries, and that most decent videos can be (for now) still found on YouTube. Any niché stuff though?

>>2156 I'd be really interested in martial arts instruction videos without Russian assholes dubbing in "translations" over the actual soundtrack.

>>2157 Here are some good sources for [H]istorical [E]uropean [M]artial Arts manuscripts: >https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Main_Page >http://www.middleages.hu/english/martialarts/treatise_database.php Not exactly what you're looking for, but niché martial arts. They also have some early modern, Victorian; Edwardian, Great War and Second World War era books on various forms of martial arts, and military combatives. Like the early combatives of Fairbairn.

>>2158 Thanks, the second one is new to me, I'll give it a look through.

>>2137 Try holistic learning. Look it up on google. Most people learn this way and it will literally help you retain atleast 80% of material that you have studied. It is the process of skimming through a subject to get a general idea, then going back and reading detail for detail to get a complete picture. It is relatively fast and efficient. Ive learned alot about different subjects this way and i use this technique instinctively from years of consciously using it over and over again. Hope this helps!

honestly I've been hoping that one day I'll have an assistant of sorts that has all the information I've downloaded 'indexed' - and then I could ask questions and it could supply me with what particular resources I have on that topic. Not just basic search but something that is doing some sort of NLP with me and processing the content in video, pdfs, etc to get really granular with what info it shows.

>>2783 Someone in another thread mentioned the browser extension Memex (https://worldbrain.io/) which builds a searchable index of everything you've browsed. I haven't used it myself, but it sounds interesting and might be a step toward what you want.

>>2783 >>2784 interdasting.

recoll full text search will search pdfs i think there were plugins for ereaders and maybe searx?

>inb4 you will never read it all. Let be honest here tho. You really cannot consume that much information in your life time. So the best you can do is using these books as just skimming materials. Or if you have questions about certain topics, for example how does magnetism work?, you can just open a physics book and read the chapters about magnetism. >I want to read it to become a self reliable guy. So start by listing what qualities you look for in a self reliable guy. imo a self reliable guy should be able to do basic maintenance stuff. Thats why i would start reading the most fundamental book i can find (probably a "for starters" kind of book) and read that. Than go switch to other books as i start to understand more about the topic as well. Anyway if you really have a 140GB of digital library you really shouldnt feel like you can read everything there and remember all of it. Most of the things you are going to read isnt even gonna stick for a day. Its just how our brains work. Thats why read what you can put into use. Read what answers your questions.

>>2155 >I have 10gb of survival text, and 100gb of survival instruction video So you plan to waste energy and time watching those videos in a SHTF situation?

>>2137 Something that a pastor I used to hang out with told me: Anytime you read something, a book, an article, whatever, always look for one "nugget" of information or one concept that you can gain from it. It doesn't have to be the main idea; anything that you find insightful and want to take with you. Having this goal-oriented method of reading really helps me get something out of the stuff I read. Of course, sometimes you're just reading for entertainment (obviously in fiction but there's a lot of non-fiction out there solely for entertainment). He was talking to me w.r.t. a bunch of religious books he had just given to me.

>>2137 I think, here, you're asking the wrong question. If you simply compile the information, storing it on a hard drive to read "later," you're *never* going to read *any* of it, because it's just an amorphous "later" time that you don't actually want to arrive. What you've got to do is start slow. Don't jump into a massive pool of information; start by dipping your toes in, see if you like the thing as a hobby, and *then* start digging deeper into that one project. It's kind of like cleaning your room: imagine if you had 100 piles of things in a hoarder house, and each pile is filled with "valuable," but not immediately useful stuff. If you were to immediately say that you want to keep all of the stuff (our analogue for keeping 2TB of PDFs), you would immediately be overwhelmed and very likely never start doing anything about the piles. If you, instead, begin at Pile #1 and begin organizing the stuff, throwing things away, and actually using some of the stuff, you would eventually end up with a clean, organized, and actually-useful amount of stuff. Now let's get back to what I think you really want to do. Dedicate your days to what you want future-you to be able to do. For example, recently, I've been working from home (obviously), doing computer science research. However, I always try to take at least one or two hours out of each day to pursue a hobby: recently, it's been woodworking, so I'll go out into the workshop for a couple of hours, get a little bit done at a time, and learn a little something new each day. I think that's how it should be done; the vast majority of the subjects that you mention cannot be simply *learned*, they must be *practiced*, and the learning comes along as a result of that practicing.

It's very easy to get MISinformation on anything on the internet. Considerably harder to get accurate information. The first person who successfully downloads the entire internet into his brain will be the most ignorant, insane person on Earth.

>>2155 Such literal ocd is wasted when only small sd's and flash drives will be able to be powered on as most solar panels will be for 5v devices upon the world's 'end'.

>>5878 The human brain can't hold that much data to begin with smart guy.

>>2137 >Learning. How to learn By doing. People can say what they want about 'theoretic foundation', if you want to learn something, you need to physically work on it. I didn't learn to weld by reading tons of books about the types of welding rods/wires, welders, material science and so on. I just dived right in, looked up to buy welders, took in the sheer number of choices, and then started to ask questions along the way. Which one do I need? What is easier to use, what is more versatile? Do I need to have special skills or knowledge to use this one? And I read up on those questions as I asked them, skimmed through books and webpages in search of specific tidbits. It makes life so much easier when you treat books as reference works, and not as something to work through from start to finish. So start by actually deciding what you really would like to do, and go from there. >STEM (CS), becoming self-reliant >Electronics, chemistry, psychology. Very wide range you got there, chummer, are you planning on becoming a jack of all trades? Cuz that takes a special mindset, and a lot of effort. But let's begin with basics >Computer science to electronics Logical connection, which is easy to bridge because of the same fundamentals. As to the others >Chemistry Start with physics if possible. Learn basic stuff about atom structure, properties of subatomic particles, behaviour and such things. This is dry and boring, but I had to learn it too. You may want to invest into a lab kit to get into it, because as I said, practice makes it so much easier to get into it. However, I said that you must learn the dry basics. If you don't want that, I can recommend you to set a goal, and work towards it. What is it that you want to accomplish? Cooking up explosives? Bootleg medicines? Or do you want to produce your own fertilizer? Go from there, and learn everything you need on the go. >Can share knowledge Do you have production specifications for flux-core welding wire under the DIN EN 758 Norm? Much appreciated.