for the adult learner who wants to ship a hard skill in 30 days
Goal
Run a 7-day intensive sprint that orchestrates metalearning, directness, drills, and feedback into one cycle.
Source principle
Metalearning + Focus + Drill + Feedback: run all the principles as one coordinated sprint. : from Ultralearning by Scott Young.
The plan
- 🗂️Sun PMBuild the metalearning map. Why / what / how on one page.
- 🎯Mon AMDirectness baseline. Try the end skill cold. Score yourself.
- 🚀Mon PMDirectness reps. Practice the real thing. No proxies.
- 🪶Tue AMLight focus warm-up. 25-min easy block, then log distractions.
- 🔧Tue PMBottleneck drill. Isolate the slowest sub-skill. Attack it.
- 📝Wed PMCold retrieval test. From memory, no notes. Patch the gaps.
- 📡Thu PMFeedback pass. Get honest signal on a real rep.
- 📊Fri AMScore the week so far. What moved, what stuck.
- 🧩Fri PMIntegration rep. Put all sub-skills back together. Real context.
- ☕SatRest day. No practice. Let it consolidate.
- 📖Sun AMReview the week. Read every log entry.
- 📅Sun PMPlan next sprint. One bottleneck named.
Reward
Week-end celebratory meal after the Day-7 review block.