Leanpub Header

Skip to main content

Intellitech - How to boost your creativity

NOTICE: translation is in progress. See the following "about the book" before you buy this book.

Minimum price

$7.99

$7.99

You pay

$7.99

Author earns

$6.39
$

...Or Buy With Credits!

You can get credits monthly with a Reader Membership
PDF
EPUB
WEB
388
Pages
92,057Words
About

About

About the Book

This project is to translate my book in Japanese into English. You can see the work in progress at the scrapbox project.

Share this book

Categories

Author

About the Author

NISHIO Hirokazu

Dr. Hirokazu NISHIO is a software engineer. Doctor of Science. Research Director at Cybozu Labs Inc. Concurrently serves as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Technology and Innovation Management / Department of Innovation Science, School of Environment and Society. 

Contents

Table of Contents

(0) Preface

  1. (0.0) What is intellitech?
  2. (0.1) Purpose of this book
  3. (0.1.1) What is Intellectual Production
  4. (0.1.2) Benefits of reading this book
  5. (0.2) How to learn programming
  6. (0.2.1) Collect information concretely
  7. (0.2.2) Compare and find patterns
  8. (0.2.3) Practice and verification
  9. (0.3) Structure of this book
  10. (0.4) Acknowledgments

(1) How to learn

  1. (1.1) The learning cycle
  2. (1.1.1) Information gathering
  3. (1.1.2) Modeling and abstraction
  4. (1.1.3) Practice and verification
  5. (1.2) Driving force to cycle: motivation
  6. (1.2.1) Difference between student learning and university learning
  7. (1.2.2) How to keep motivated?
  8. (1.2.3) Should I go to university?
  9. (1.2.4) How to find good references?
  10. (1.2.5) How to choose better paper book?
  11. (1.3) Three methods of information gathering
  12. (1.3.1) Learn from what you want to know
  13. (1.3.2) Requirement for learning from what you want to know
  14. (1.3.3) Learn roughly first
  15. (1.3.4) Learn from one end
  16. (1.4) What is abstraction?
  17. (1.4.1) Abstract
  18. (1.4.2) Model
  19. (1.4.3) Module
  20. (1.4.4) Model / View / Controller
  21. (1.4.5) Pattern Discovery
  22. (1.4.6) Design pattern
  23. (1.4.7) Why is abstraction necessary?
  24. (1.5) How to abstract
  25. (1.5.1) Compare and learn
  26. (1.5.2) Learning from history
  27. (1.5.3) Learn from patterns
  28. (1.6) Verification
  29. (1.6.1) Varification by making
  30. (1.6.2) Varification by exams
  31. (1.6.3) Domains that are difficult to verify
  32. (1.7) Summary

(2) How to motivate yourself

  1. (2.1) 65% of not-motivated people have more than one task
  2. (2.1.1) grasp the overall picture first to choose one task
  3. (2.1.2) Getting Things Done: Collect all first
  4. (2.1.3) Collect all and then process them
  5. (2.1.4) How to choose one task
  6. (2.2) Prioritization of tasks is itself a difficult task
  7. (2.2.1) A burden of sorting
  8. (2.2.2) We can not compare magnitude unless it is one dimension
  9. (2.2.3) We can not compare magnitude when there is an uncertain factor?
  10. (2.2.4) Prioritize important tasks
  11. (2.2.5) You do not have to determine the priority now
  12. (2.3) Motivation on one task
  13. (2.3.1) Task is too big
  14. (2.3.2) Timeboxing
  15. (2.4) Summary

(3) How to train your memory

  1. (3.1) Memory mechanism
  2. (3.1.1) Hippocampus
  3. (3.1.2) Person who removed hippocampus
  4. (3.1.3) Morris water maze
  5. (3.1.4) Memory is not one type
  6. (3.2) The common part between memory and muscle
  7. (3.2.1) Synapse transmitting a signal
  8. (3.2.2) Long-term potentiation of synapses
  9. (3.2.3) Gradually make the memory solid
  10. (3.3) Memory becomes strong by repeated use
  11. (3.4) The output make memory strong
  12. (3.4.1) Test is a means of memorization
  13. (3.4.2) Learn more after testing
  14. (3.4.3) Not confident but the score is high
  15. (3.4.4) Adaptive boosting
  16. (3.4.5) High-speed cycle of test
  17. (3.5) Spaced repetition method that lasts knowledge
  18. (3.5.1) Review after you forget it
  19. (3.5.2) Leitner system
  20. (3.5.3) The easiness of the problem
  21. (3.5.4) The 20 rules to structure knowledge
  22. (3.5.5) Anki
  23. (3.5.6) Automatic adjustment of difficulty level
  24. (3.5.7) Make teaching materials yourself
  25. (3.5.8) Copyright and private use
  26. (3.6) Summary

(4) How to read efficiently

  1. (4.1) What is “reading?”
  2. (4.1.1) Purpose of reading a book
  3. (4.1.2) Kind and speed of reading
  4. (4.2) How fast do you read?
  5. (4.2.1) Pyramid of reading speed
  6. (4.2.2) Where is the bottleneck?
  7. (4.2.3) Suffering of speed reading
  8. (4.2.4) To not read
  9. (4.3) How to read a page in two seconds to find information
  10. (4.3.1) Whole Mind System
  11. (4.3.2) Focus Reading
  12. (4.3.3) Attention to headlines
  13. (4.4) Reading one page in three minutes to assemble information
  14. (4.4.1) How to read philosophical books
  15. (4.4.2) Spend 40 hours in one book
  16. (4.4.3) How to read mathematical books
  17. (4.5) Design task of reading
  18. (4.5.1) Understanding is an uncertain task
  19. (4.5.2) Reading is a means, not a purpose
  20. (4.5.3) Make materials for review
  21. (4.6) Summary

(5): How to organize information

  1. (5.1) Is there too much information or too little?
  2. (5.1.1) Measure the amount of information by writing all out
  3. (5.2) How to organize too much information
  4. (5.2.1) Spread so that you can see the whole at a glance
  5. (5.2.2) Record anything you think
  6. (5.2.3) Make related things close
  7. (5.2.4) You need to change your mental model for group organization
  8. (5.2.5) What is the relation?
  9. (5.2.6) Bundle and attach a nameplate = compress
  10. (5.2.7) Spread bundles again
  11. (5.2.8) Convert them into one-dimensional sentences
  12. (5.3) Tuning for busy people
  13. (5.3.1) Skip steps
  14. (5.3.2) Interruptible design
  15. (5.3.3) Method to store A4 documents
  16. (5.4) It is important to repeat
  17. (5.4.1) Repeating the KJ method
  18. (5.4.2) Trigger to repeat
  19. (5.4.3) Incremental improvement
  20. (5.4.4) Organizing group of past output again
  21. (5.4.5) Digital tool for the KJ method
  22. (5.5) Summary

Columns

  1. (Column) 7 Habits
  2. (Column) Consistency of knowledge
  3. (Column) Do you need the ability to find information ten years later?
  4. (Column) Efficiency improvement by framework
  5. (Column) Emergency decomposition theory
  6. (Column) Example of “to write all out” method
  7. (Column) In the hippocampus time is compressed
  8. (Column) Nameplate and color of pieces
  9. (Column) Naming the pattern
  10. (Column) PDCA cycle
  11. (Column) Reading along time series
  12. (Column) SMART criteria
  13. (Column) Size of pieces
  14. (Column) The remaining 15 rules to structure knowledge
  15. (Column) You may find a relationship later
  16. (Column) excerpt from civil code map

Keywords

  1. -KA
  2. 20 rules to structure knowledge
  3. A book that you have read but have forgotten
  4. A book that you have read roughly
  5. ability to adjust knowledge
  6. Abstract
  7. adaptive boosting
  8. Akinori Takada
  9. all models are wrong
  10. Anki
  11. anxious things
  12. Arthur Schopenhauer
  13. assumption
  14. beforehand
  15. big task
  16. books to be chewed
  17. bubble sort
  18. Call for Reviewers
  19. cherry-picking
  20. chew
  21. chicken or the egg
  22. CHUSHOKA
  23. claim
  24. cloze deletion
  25. compare
  26. consider the means as the purpose
  27. context
  28. Craik and Tulving
  29. Creativity or learning
  30. curiosity
  31. Cybozu
  32. dig
  33. divide
  34. efficient sorting algorithms
  35. expanded reproduction
  36. extract
  37. find a relationship
  38. find common pattern
  39. finding
  40. Finding information is an uncertain task.
  41. Flash cards
  42. floor
  43. Footnote 23 for (5.2.3.1) Flow of KJ method
  44. Footnote for 1.2.2.2 tutorial
  45. Footnote for 4.5.2.3
  46. Footnote: other metaphors for taking the top of pyramid
  47. fragmentary knowledge
  48. fusen
  49. George Edward Pelham Box
  50. goal
  51. gradation
  52. handicap theory
  53. handle
  54. Hard disk drive
  55. How to make ideas
  56. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
  57. ICHIRANSEI
  58. independence
  59. inferior stationery harms your intelligence
  60. information asymmetry
  61. information gathering
  62. IWAKAN
  63. junior high school
  64. Kindle Direct Publishing
  65. Knowledge is an antidote for fear
  66. knowledge is stacked on the foundation
  67. learning cycle
  68. Learning methods of engineer
  69. Learning without thinking is useless
  70. long-term potentiation
  71. MEMORY: From Mind to Molecule
  72. Method of loci
  73. methodology
  74. MODEL-KA
  75. Modeling or abstraction is a task to stack boxes
  76. Monte Carlo tree search
  77. MOOC
  78. Morris water maze
  79. motivation
  80. near, far, close, distant
  81. Niklaus Wirth
  82. Note: Why I hate keeping the same
  83. optimism in the face of uncertainty
  84. order of appearance
  85. Original Matz’s talk in Japanese
  86. overall picture
  87. parallel processing
  88. pattern discovery
  89. practice
  90. prefix syn-
  91. Principles of Neural Science
  92. Principles of the small start
  93. Programming Languages: Their Core Concepts
  94. public-key cryptography
  95. pull back
  96. quick dicision
  97. quiet speaking
  98. read through
  99. reading through
  100. Reading with hands
  101. Result of the agent simulation
  102. rhetorical afterimage
  103. Roger Craig
  104. roughly first
  105. search
  106. search engine
  107. sense of incompatibility

TODO link to section6

  1. sense of values
  2. Shigehiko Toyama
  3. signal
  4. signal of quality
  5. SM-2 algorithm
  6. SNS
  7. society
  8. Solid-state drive
  9. speed-reading techniques
  10. stack
  11. Staffan Nöteberg
  12. summarize information
  13. Sutra copying
  14. technique
  15. Technique to Read Difficult Books
  16. the meaning of a word is its use in the language
  17. The optimal way to boost creativity depends on your situation, so you need to build it by yourself.
  18. the three phases of the learning cycle
  19. The Zen of Python
  20. thunks
  21. Timeboxing
  22. to write all out
  23. unclear about the achievement condition
  24. understand
  25. unknown achievement condition
  26. usage of the physical body
  27. variance
  28. visualize the progress
  29. Way of thinking
  30. way to break a task
  31. What kind of
  32. William Edwards Deming
  33. Yasuyuki Kawahigashi
  34. You’re NOT gonna need it!

Crosslink List

The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee

Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.

Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.

You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!

So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?

See full terms...

Earn $8 on a $10 Purchase, and $16 on a $20 Purchase

We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.

(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)

In fact, authors have earned over $14 million writing, publishing and selling on Leanpub.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub

Free Updates. DRM Free.

If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).

Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.

Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.

Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them

Write and Publish on Leanpub

You can use Leanpub to easily write, publish and sell in-progress and completed ebooks and online courses!

Leanpub is a powerful platform for serious authors, combining a simple, elegant writing and publishing workflow with a store focused on selling in-progress ebooks.

Leanpub is a magical typewriter for authors: just write in plain text, and to publish your ebook, just click a button. (Or, if you are producing your ebook your own way, you can even upload your own PDF and/or EPUB files and then publish with one click!) It really is that easy.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub