Old Man Learns about Learning

 Lately, everything is a long playlist of "courses" (cc) = Crash Course --  Focus & Concentration: Crash Course Study Skills #5                              ---^^^-- Study Skills playlist                         ---^^^--  Scientific Thinking                         ---^^^-- The Universe                         ---^^^--  Climate & Energy                         ---^^^--  Artificial Intelligence (21 videos)                         ---^^^--  History of Sc...

 From Reddit on 1/15/2026 [Highlights added]: This page last updated 01/18/2026 (here?) Takes me a lot of time to understand the material I'm studying. [Finding the better "neural anchor points"] [an OP writes]: To put it into perspective, I just took 2-3 hours for a 17 min video on fertilization (I'm a med student). I had like a million doubts and then some more. So I kept pausing the video and googling and googling. And it's not like I understand the contents after one google. No, it takes me question after question because it seems like there's a new doubt for every answer. I see all these tips like "teach others" "active recall" "use flashcards", etc.  but these only seem to be useful to remember stuff rather than understanding it for the first time. How do I teach something that I couldn't understand in the first place? This is a huge problem for me cuz I have tons of material to cover. I'm gon enter exam season in ...

 YouTube lecture =  Obsidian Book Note Taking 📝 Practical Workflow & Effortless Reading Tips

  I've been co-mingling notes about Learning and Neuroscience within my Old_Man_Learns_to_Code blog ( here ) It's getting to be a bit too much for one blog to encompass. Learning about Learning is a huge topic in its own rights. So time to break it out in a separate blog. Here. T his post was to be a more profound first one. However the recent update to Obsidian got in the way. Thanks to "Bases", I got to experience all over again the frustrations a newbie to Obsidian sufferes through because no decent controls appear in the left side ribbon of a new install, especially with the Settings gear not being easily spotted . Eventually, I discovered that the Settings gear is buried in the bottom right of a pane and can't be seen until that pane is unfurled. Once the gear was found, I was able to restore all my Commander plug-in button into the left side ribbon. Here is the better look of it: ( Left click on image to enlarge ) Some explanations: The Commander plug-in al...