Scientific Definition
A deliberately curated set of people, sources, and feedback loops you draw on to learn faster than alone.
Plain-English Definition
A deliberately curated set of people, sources, and feedback loops you draw on to learn faster than alone.
Feynman Explanation
Your IQ is your network's bandwidth, not your skull's.
Core Principle
A deliberately curated set of people, sources, and feedback loops you draw on to learn faster than alone.
Mechanisms
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A deliberately curated set of people, sources, and feedback loops you draw on to learn faster than alone.
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Compounding returns on every hour of learning the team invests.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Your IQ is your network's bandwidth, not your skull's.
Examples
- Munger's 'eminent dead' through books; Buffett's circle of advisors.
- Compounding returns on every hour of learning the team invests.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Audit who and what you learn from quarterly. Prune the low-signal nodes.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Audit who and what you learn from quarterly. Prune the low-signal nodes.
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Interactive Mini Network
Click any neighbor to re-center the graph and follow the threads of connection.
Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Learners build knowledge by integrating new experience with existing mental structures — not by passive reception.
Targeted reps at the edge of your ability, with fast feedback, on a specific weakness.
Four dimensions of learner preference: Active/Reflective, Sensing/Intuitive, Visual/Verbal, Sequential/Global.
Four learner preferences derived from Kolb: Activist, Reflector, Theorist, Pragmatist.
Four-stage cycle: Concrete Experience → Reflective Observation → Abstract Conceptualization → Active Experimentation.
Giving up after repeated exposure to uncontrollable negative events.
Performance improves with practice, but gains slow over time.
Default identity shift: you read, watch, and listen as a future teacher, not a passive consumer.
Preparing to teach a concept forces deeper encoding than passively studying it.
Pulling information out of memory cements it better than passively re-reading it.
Daily one-line capture of the single most important thing you learned that day.
Bloom-stacked curriculum that pairs passive online content with facilitated, experiential, and implementation phases.