Active Calculus Active Prelude to Calculus, Active Calculus, and Active Calculus Multivariable are free, open-source texts designed for an active learning experience for students. website: activecalculus.org/

10 powerful books that'll put your writing in the top 1% this year: 1. On Writing — Stephen King

"Elementary Calculus" by Michael Corral Freely available at: mecmath.net/calculus/index.h…

FREE Big Math Book. "Calculus in Context." Calculus: it's the language the universe whispers in. Calculus reveals the hidden mathematics of motion and change. It lets you calculate the exact speed of a falling apple at any instant, predict planetary orbits, or find the perfect curve for a bridge that stands for centuries: all by taming the infinite and the infinitesimal. Link: science.smith.edu/~callahan/…

FREE Math Book. "Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof" by Sundstrom. For the first course in the college math curriculum that introduces students to constructing proofs. Topics: Logical Reasoning, Mathematical Induction. Set Theory, Functions, Equivalence Relations, Number Theory, Finite and Infinite Sets, etc. Link: tedsundstrom.com/mathematica…

Reading advice from Basketball Hall of Fame coach George Raveling:

7 Tips to be a better reader: 1. Read 2 books at a time 2. Quit books you aren’t enjoying 3. Read both fiction & non-fiction 4. Put your phone in another room 5. Highlight key lessons while reading 6. Reread books that changed your life 7. Read daily even if it’s only for 5 mins Reading changed my life.

How to increase your "luck surface area", according to @exojason, who coined the phrase back in 2010:

Juan Carlos Campuzano es un físico paraguayo 🇵🇾 Es Profesor Distinguido de Física en la Universidad de Illinois en Chicago. miembro distinguido (Distinguished Fellow) en el Laboratorio Nacional Argonne. y también es miembro de la American Physical Society desde 2001.

You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.

🎯 "Focus on becoming useful, not impressive." Always remember that your goal is NOT to prove you're smart, it's to make problems go away. If your primary focus is peacocking your intellect then you're going to create problems instead of making them go away. You don't get points for creating an unnecessary problem on which to demonstrate your smarts. You don't get points for creating an overcomplicated solution to a simple problem. You lose points for these things. What you get points for is taking a problem and making it go *poof*, completely solved and easy to maintain and nobody has to think about it anymore.

The longer you wait before building the life you want in the long run, the more likely you are to settle for something else.

In other words: Stop treating your life as a series of chance events and start treating it as a function of your inputs. Many people are stuck in a "waiting" state, hoping for a lucky break or epiphany. They treat their life like a lottery ticket when they should be treating it like a skill tree. The extraordinary results you want are the output of a system that you are avoiding because it lacks the dopamine hit of a lucky break. You don't need a breakthrough moment or a strike of motivation. You need a decision and a system. You can either start now, or waste more years on the sidelines and start later. The path won't get any shorter just because you waited. But your remaining time will. Doing the work is hard, but coping with the fact that you had potential and didn't capitalize on it is much harder.

Un holandés se volvió viral por hacerle entender a su jefe de Estados Unidos que tiene una vida fuera del trabajo, jaja y si

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📚 If you’re a student choosing what to focus on, pick MATH. It will teach you to relentlessly rely on your own brain, think logically, break down problems, and solve them step by step in the right order. That’s the core skill you’ll need to build companies and manage projects.

this guy took 6 years to graduate, started college intending to do poetry, realized junior year that he liked math, then went to america and won the fields medal.