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Condensed

Each of these sums up one subject in short rules.

• Learning, Condensed: How to take in new material, how to remember it, and how to plan study.
• Chinese Characters, Condensed: How to learn Chinese characters. The parts of a character give clues to its sound and to its meaning.
• Agentic Engineering, Condensed: How to build software with AI agents. Rules that stay true are kept apart from tips that go out of date.
• Money, Condensed: Doing well with money depends more on habits than on intelligence.
• Minimalism, Condensed: Every object you own uses up some of your attention.
• Design, Condensed: If people struggle to use something, the design is bad.
• Story Craft, Condensed: How to write stories for language learners, using only words the reader already knows.

Hubs

Each of these is the starting point for one subject.

• Learning Systems: How learning works. A study technique is useful only if it makes you process the material in your mind.
• Agentic Engineering: AI agents write much of the code. The developer is still responsible for that code.
• Language Learning: How to learn a language by listening and reading a lot.
• Chinese Characters: How Chinese characters are built. Each character is made of smaller parts, and each part has a different function.
• Attention & Self-Management: Focus, and a person's own attention. Flow is being fully absorbed in a task.
• Minimalism: Owning fewer things. A possession costs attention, space, and upkeep.
• Red Team / Critical Thinking: How to attack your own plan before you carry it out.
• Front-End Web Design: Design rules for web pages. The screen has to show people what they can click.
• Story Craft: How to build characters who stay believable across a long story.
• Worldviews & the Political Order: Contested public arguments, each checked for what follows from it.