Stuff Jesse Likes

Stick around for the killer ending 4 minutes in!

Nicky Case has a great "explorable" explanation of the science of spaced repition, called how to remember anything forever-ish.

The general idea is that you want to study flash cards as little as possible, both to not take up all your time, and based on the science of encoding things to long term memory. With spaced repitition, every time you review a flash card and get it right, the app schedules it for review again further and further out.

Anki is a desktop and mobile app that's one of the most popular formats for it. I've been told that a lot of med school students use it extensively.

Essential Craftsman's Spec House Full Build Series

This is a great, super detailed, step by step walkthrough of building a home by a career carpenter. I really liked that it went in depth on some of the mundane/tedious details that other carpentry channels skip, like permitting and inspections, and really touches every step from start to finish.

It's long!

LAIKIPIA is pretty fantastic, and I like a lot of Xander Rawlin's solo stuff. They range from instrumental to electronic.

Definitely check out "The Hits Keep Coming", "Down Down", "Hello Dreamer", Xander Rawlins' "We See You", and all their other stuff.

How do they make things? How did they make things before computers but after machines? Well boy do I have a channel for you:

Turns out the secret is to spin something sharp really fast, or to spin something you want to cut really fast and poke it with something sharp.

Inheritance Machining is a consistently quality channel on using manual (non computer-numerical-control) machining methods to make metal parts.

Like 3d printing channels, somehow 70% of the projects are ugprades to the tooling to better make other things. Because so many videos build on tools and concepts touched on in previous videos, if you're interested (and maybe after trying a couple random videos), I'd recommend starting from near the beginning.

It's been really interesting to learn about the process of making things round, or flat, or square, or accurate to very precise increments, and the material science of what can cut or grind what, and how you can use heat to temper objects and creating them.

You can start at the very beginning here in 2022.