Learning Journal 2017
This post is where I'll keep track of the various learning projects I do. It's more of a public living document rather than an article. I currently plan to only list nonfiction books that I read, and to use "read" to include both deep reading and light skimming.
January 2017
- Read Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
February 2017
- Read Platform Revolution by Geoffrey Parker
March 2017
- Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp by Jose Portilla on Udemy
- Read Deep Work by Cal Newport
April 2017
- "Advanced Google Analytics" through Google Analytics Academy
- Read The Undoing Project by Michael L. Lewis
- Read Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer
- Read The Revenge of Analog by David Sax
May 2017
- Reviewed the "Titanic Data Set" tutorial on Kaggle
- Read Scrum by Jeff Sutherland
June 2017
- Finished Learn to Program: The Fundamentals (Python) by the University of Toronto on Coursera (started in May)
July 2017
- Read Steal the Show by Michael Port
- Read: The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey
- Finished "Learning How to Learn" by Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski via UC San Diego on Coursera
- Started reading Natural Language Processing with Python by Bird, Klein, and Loper
- Started the London Latin Course on YouTube for audio + Google Books/Archive.org for the Adler textbook
- Read The Happiness Equation by Neil Pasricha
August 2017
- Read The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg (recommended!)
- Did Latin localization/translation for the Mystcraft mod (Minecraft)
- Added samples of Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata by Hans H. Orberg to my London Latin course habit
- Read The Episodic Career by Farai Chideya
- Read Science and the Human Prospect by Ronald C. Pine
- Read How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
September 2017
- Read Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- Wrote curriculum for three middle- or high-school science classes and a Latin class.
- Deepened understanding of Pseudacris regilla and Drosophila melanogaster biology.
- Studied new set of Latin vocabulary.
October 2017
- Planned tea chemistry class for NW Tea Festival (but didn't get to teach it because I got sick)
- Read On Being Awesome by Nick Riggle (didn't buy his premise, though)
- Updated curriculum for “Entrepreneurship Toolkit” and “Marketing Essentials” college classes
November 2017
- Mostly just teaching
- Began reading Fluke by Joseph Mazur
December 2017
- Finished reading Fluke by Joseph Mazur
- Taught some more
- Started reading both The Gardener and the Carpenter by Alison Gopnik, and The Truth-Seeker's Handbook by Gleb Tsipursky