What I Want To Learn
Enumerating all the stuff that I want to learn.
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What I Want To Learn
Yesterday, I watched a video on popular Twitch streamer Tyler1. The video was about how he was supposedly one of the best chess players. Honestly, I didn't think that just anyone can start playing chess late in their life and then earn such huge acclaim by the chess community. As it turns out, in just a few months, he had managed to climb from the level of an amateur to one of the strongest being the top 1% of players in chess.com
This got me thinking.
If he can do that, then maybe I can do that. Not chess of course. I'm not that smart.
So, I thought about things that I could learn. I also wanted to write about what I was thinking of learning. For me, writing them down serves two purposes:
- Documenting my progress
- Accountability
In this way, I make sure that I don't forget what it was I'm doing in the first place. Nowadays, I am absolutely scared of forgetting things. There are just so many things that I need to keep track of. Therefore, writing things down in a place I can revisit later will help me reorganize myself.
The "Why" in Choosing Stuff
Then, another question came. What should I learn?
I suppose first I should explain the reason for why I want to learn and that should logically lead to my choices.
To boil it down, most of what I think about learning is now more about how it will be useful to me and/or how it will improve my thought processes. Fortunately, for me, it's fun to literally learn absolutely anything so at least in that I can be reassured that I won't hit a plateau of learning boredom.
Actually Making The Choices
There are various domains of knowledge that I want to take a step into. One of them is world languages. Specifically, I want to learn Chinese.
On the flip side are programming languages. In particular, I would like to learn Go and Rust.
Furthermore, in direct alignment of my passion and study in technology, I'm thinking of diving deep into embedded systems which entails a number of topics like electronics, microcontrollers, operating systems, testing equipment (multimeters and oscilloscopes), breadboarding, soldering, interfaces, protocols, etc. It's a lot to say the least.
But I'm sure there's also a lot when it comes to learning Chinese as well.
And just to top it off, I want to learn about sociology and psychology. I think these fields of study will help me think better. And, on some level, it's also useful in terms of navigating society.
That's it for now!