Amit Mund - Notebook of Things I don't know
@amitmund
June 18, 2026
Trick to learn
- Learn such that you can teach to a kid.
- Because:
- The Brain remembers what it produces, Not what it consumes.
- So try creating youtube video, such that you are guiding to a kid.
- Write the things that you don't know about. You can consider you know, only if you can able to explain to a kid. (In this case, this is that notebook.)
- Its not the failure.
- Its the engine of to be genius.
- I don't quite get this yet.
- Memory thrives in the cracks between what you know and what you don't.
- The Twelve favorite problems.
- Carry in your head these 12 big problems such, you can co-relate if you get some light on it from your day to day work.
- Elaborative Encoding.
- The Universe give you the Answer in some way.
- Re-build from scratch.
- Re build, everything from scratch from your **Brain**.
- If you are stuck somewhere, just open the book long enough to understand where you stuck
- Called as `The Blank Page Test`
- What you build, you keep. What you only read, you rent.
- Play with it
- Play.
- Only when you play on the topic you learning it will help you to understand and keep in the memory.
- Memory don't keep boring things.
- Memory keep, things, that are fun, having curiosity and you had fun with.
To learn, how something works and I should be able to explain to a kid
- Kubernetics