Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this episode, we discuss Nabeel Qureshi's recent blog post "How to Understand Things". We go through the post's main points, and talk about our own experiences of learning and understanding things, from school to university to today.
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Links:
1. How to Understand Things — the blog post by Nabeel Qureshi that we discuss for most of the episode
2. Learn by exploration, then by theory — blog post by Taimur
3. Thinking at the right level of abstraction — blog post by Taimur
4. Constructionism and the Future of Learning — blog post by Taimur
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What is this?
Not Overthinking is a podcast about happiness, creativity, and the human condition. We talk about things to help us think, do, and be better. Things like social interaction, lifestyle design, mental models... Things that are hard to examine, but important to explore. And hopefully, things that make for a fun and interesting chat every week.
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Who are we?
Ali is a junior doctor and YouTuber working in Cambridge, UK. He makes videos about medicine, technology, productivity and lifestyle design. His links: YouTube, Blog, Newsletter, Instagram
Taimur is a data scientist and writer, working on his own startup Causal. He writes on his blog and as a columnist for Medium. His links: Blog, Twitter, Medium, Instagram
In this episode, we discuss Nabeel Qureshi's recent blog post "How to Understand Things". We go through the post's main points, and talk about our own experiences of learning and understanding things, from school to university to today.
Sponsored by Skillshare
This episode is kindly supported by Skillshare. Sign up at skillshare.com/notoverthinking for a 2-month free trial. It's a good alternative to YouTube, and you can check out Ali's amazing How to Study for Exams masterclass with it!
Links:
1. How to Understand Things — the blog post by Nabeel Qureshi that we discuss for most of the episode
2. Learn by exploration, then by theory — blog post by Taimur
3. Thinking at the right level of abstraction — blog post by Taimur
4. Constructionism and the Future of Learning — blog post by Taimur
Leave us a Review
If you enjoy listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to leave us a review on iTunes / Apple Podcasts.
Send us an Audio Message
We really want to include more listener comments and questions in our episodes. If you've got any thoughts on this episode, or if you've got a conundrum or question you'd like us to discuss, send an audio file / voice note to hi@notoverthinking.com.
For any non-audio comments, drop us a tweet or DM on Twitter - twitter.com/noverthinking
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What is this?
Not Overthinking is a podcast about happiness, creativity, and the human condition. We talk about things to help us think, do, and be better. Things like social interaction, lifestyle design, mental models... Things that are hard to examine, but important to explore. And hopefully, things that make for a fun and interesting chat every week.
Follow Not Overthinking on Twitter: twitter.com/noverthinking.
Who are we?
Ali is a junior doctor and YouTuber working in Cambridge, UK. He makes videos about medicine, technology, productivity and lifestyle design. His links: YouTube, Blog, Newsletter, Instagram
Taimur is a data scientist and writer, working on his own startup Causal. He writes on his blog and as a columnist for Medium. His links: Blog, Twitter, Medium, Instagram
