It's time for a new Blog

It's time for a new Blog

Since I started my Blog on Jekyll in 2015, I’ve had great fun and experiences. One of my Blogposts still gets thousands of visits every month. But now it’s time to move to a new platform. I’ve always liked the simplicity and the control over a platform like this, but there are also some cons.

Even though markdown is very easy to use, when one wants to focus exclusively on writing, a good editor is simply better. When I focus on writing about books like I currently do a lot, I don’t want to insert markdown etc manually. Even though using ATOM it is so simple to update (commit-push) my page with a simple keyboard shortcut, it’s not the same.

When I tackle with tech thinks it’s perfect, I think Jekyll is really tailored for tech bloggers. But once you use a complete interface with thousands of ready-made plugins you can just put into your page, you will know what I’m talking about. It is as though you are using a beautiful Mac interface. Of course, we love the console, but would we be willing to go back 30 years and use only a command line interface? I’m don’t know you but I like having an option.

The same happened to me while on my blogging journey. I love Jekyll because of the speed and control one has, but you can’t use an editor and export your posts later if you want, much less build an entire website in minutes with drag and drop like you could for example with Wordpress and Elementor.

For these and several other reasons I moved to WP, for now, make sure to subscribe/follow me on my new page, where I share a lot of knowledge about my old/new passion, Books.

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Learn faster by using retrieval


Jeffrey Karpicke is a cognitive psychologist from Purdue University. His area of research looks at strategies for long-term learning and comprehension. He published an interesting study in which he questioned college students on how they would study for an exam.

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Learn faster by linking information


Ever since I learned complex concepts, I noticed a trend. Whenever my grasp of the basics was solid, or I could relate the new information to already known concepts, my learning and retention were much better.

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Why you should personalize your learning


I’m one of those individuals who often are uncomfortable and bored in traditional educational settings. I always learned better and had more fun doing it, when reading a book. Except when I got a very enthusiastic teacher, perhaps that’s one reason why I like MOOC’s so much, they tend to be made by teachers who are highly passionate about education. Today I happened to watch some talks about learning and the brain.

In this part of the video, Dr. Lara Boyd mentions that due to the difference in our brain structure, our optimal learning settings differ from each other, there is no one method fits all.

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The logarithmic learning curve


I’m always getting a kick out of learning something entirely new. Perhaps that’s why I like to read about things outside of my expertise.

Conceivably that preference of mine has something to do with the fact that we learn new skills in a logarithmic time curve as I learned in this TEDx talk. The logarithmic curve means that initially, we get better very fast when we learn a new skill, and then our improvement slows down gradually like observed in the graph below.

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