Ultralearning – Scott Young
Young works with Cal Newport. The two began working with each other when Young did the equivalent of MIT’s undergraduate Computer Science degree in a year while Newport was still an MIT post-doc. That should tell you all you need to know about Young’s purpose: offer guidance to people who want to take on ambitious learning projects. Through nine steps, Young guides you through intentional self-directed learning. Young’s examples run the gamut from language acquisition to creating a video game. The book is mainly about the ETHICS or RULES of learning, with some implicit commentary on the SANCTIONS that such projects bring.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. There’s no way I got everything I could out of one reading, and I got enough to inform my own ultralearning project.
Experiments in Criticism 