01 Hamming, Learning to Learn: Orientation, 28 March 1995
Channel: Hamming on Hamming: Learning to Learn
Date: 2018-01-22

Lecture 1, 28 March 1995, Orientation. The purpose of this course is to prepare you for your technical future. There is really no technical content in the course, though I will, of course, refer to a great deal of it, and hopefully it will be a good review of the fundamentals that you have learned. Do not think the technical content is the course - it is only illustrative material. Style of thinking is the center of the course. I am concerned with educating and not training you.

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00:00 Introduction
01:04 Orientation(style)
07:00 Bell Labs
08:58 What made you great is not appropriate for the next generation
09:32 Education
11:53 90% of the scientists that ever lived are alive now  #exponentialgrowth
15:40 Back of the envelop modeling example
18:55 Things become obsolete
21:30 Claim the fundamentals
24:07 Methods of predicting the future
26:06 History(Future and the Past) #Individualsdomatter
30:47 Drunken Sailor
34:15 Unity in all problems: knowledge is homogeneous
41:00 Personal problems dominate management
43:48 Goals: the struggle
46:08 The unexamined life is not worth living
47:24 End

Hamming Quotes

44:00 “It's not the achievement of the goal that really is the best part.  It's the struggle. The struggle to success is what makes you what you will be.”

44:15 "There's no escaping living with yourself in old age"

45:00 “Manage yourself to be the person you wish to be, to achieve the goals you wish”