dwwilson66

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Visual Communications Professional with a background in technology. In the thick of learning Java, PHP & MySQL to augment my web skills. I'm taking a shine to programming a lot more than I thought I would.

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Jun 25	comment	Which is more productive: doing lots of work in parallel or one by one? if an answer was helpful for you, please consider selecting it as your choice.
Jun 25	comment	Reading to Understand if an answer was helpful for you, please consider selecting it as your choice.
Jun 21	answered	Which is more productive: doing lots of work in parallel or one by one?
Jun 20	answered	Reading to Understand
Jun 20	answered	Personal experiences with image streaming
Jun 20	answered	What should I do? ACCA or MBA?
Jun 20	comment	Where should I store good advice? I don't review ~everything~, but as I categorize things daily, I see the items that on my lists. I rely on the cocktail party effect (sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081119175851.htm) to guide me to important things for NOW. I review tags/notebooks every few days...not on any set schedule, but more "I've not looked at the bokos I want to read in a while." I useSpringPad as a to-do list, and have just disciplined myself to not be desensitized and work with it daily to keep it relevant. It's a lot of information, but this works for me to break it into manageable chunks.
Jun 19	answered	Where should I store good advice?
Jun 18	comment	Is it possible to learn while sleeping? @Renan - could you please accept an answer? Thanks.
Jun 15	comment	How to retain focus without coffee? @Belisama - true dat. I just clarified my response; I was intending to note that my experience of mate has been very smooth compared to other caffeinated bevs. Of course, I'd failed miserably at communicating that...thanks for calling me out. :)
Jun 15	revised	How to retain focus without coffee? added 22 characters in body
Jun 14	answered	How to retain focus without coffee?
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Jun 12	comment	Is it possible to learn while sleeping? @Renan - no, it's not been proven to work except by studies NOT subject to common scientific rigor. The most efficent way to do it, if it does work FOR YOU is the way you discover best fits your learning style...which will come from exploration and testing. Good luck!
Jun 12	answered	Is it possible to learn while sleeping?
Jun 12	comment	Is it possible to learn while sleeping? Answering the question depends on how you define sleep. Simon and Evans, in 1956, found correlations between retention and alpha waves--the waves of a relaxed, unencumbered mind. No statistically significant increase in learning or retention was noted during sleep.
Jun 8	comment	Schedules, timetable or tasklist? Put it on a list so you DON'T forget it, but don't worry so much about whether you've allocated enough hours, or if it's in a calendar or a list or a schedule. As others have said, having a big picture goal (e.g., the list of English chapters due by such-and-such date) will be what keeps you on track. You can set small individual goals...like WHICH chapter to read/study/test AS NEEDED as you progress.
Jun 8	answered	Schedules, timetable or tasklist?
Jun 8	comment	Schedules, timetable or tasklist? Then you amend your schedule. Don't be too hard on yourself about the lists. It's not carved in stone for you. If you need more time, you sit back, say, "Wow...this is a TWO day project", adjust your list, and suddenly you have more time. Life happens. Things that you can never plan for on a list will pop up. The trick is use the list and a GUIDE without obsessing about finishing things. If you make a list that you can't stick with because it's too ambitious and CAN'T BE CHANGED, you'll quickly get frustrated and stop using it. Let it be fluid...don't worry so much.
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