BigCat's Learning Hub

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Thinker Roundtable

150+ thinkers across eras and traditions debate one question over several rounds — taking sides, classical texts glossed in plain language, closed by a three-way Claude / GPT / Gemini AI panel.

Roundtable

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Deep Research

Multi-agent research with adversarial fact-checking — plain and deep editions.

Research

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Cross-Site Synthesis

Why one concept is the same thing across several sites, and where it stops being the same — every section links back to its source page.

Synthesis

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Mental Models

Decision, cognition, systems thinking, game theory, probability, psychology — 3-4 models per day to build a cross-disciplinary toolkit.

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Meta Knowledge

Neuroscience, behavioral economics, complex systems, sociology, management, quantum physics — a cross-disciplinary world-model toolkit.

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Super Individual

AI tool stack, prompt library, PKM, automation, agents — a tactical handbook for personal productivity in the AI era.

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AI & ML

LLMs, agents, RAG, reinforcement learning, multimodal, interpretability — deep technical principles to build super-individual AI capabilities.

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System Design

Distributed systems, architecture trade-offs, real-world case studies, interview demos — system design training for senior engineers.

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CS Papers

Milestone CS/AI papers, distilled — the problem, key idea, method and impact in one read, with hand-drawn diagrams; read this page instead of the paper.

2026-08-27

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CS Books

Great CS/software books, chapter by chapter — core concepts and key trade-offs distilled one chapter per page, with comparison tables, real-system magnitudes and public industry evidence; read this page instead of the chapter.

2026-08-27

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Leadership

1:1s, feedback, hard conversations, hiring, coaching — concrete scripts and checklists; prescriptive craft for tech leaders.

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Sales

Discovery, trust, pitching, objections, closing — and selling yourself. Real scripts, with the psychology and evidence behind why they work.

2026-08-27

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Writing

Zinsser, Orwell, Pyramid Principle, memos, writing in the AI era — the super-individual's expression toolkit.

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Health & Longevity

Evidence-based medicine, longevity science, women's health, exercise, nutrition, sleep — actionable protocols, not wellness fluff.

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Parenting

Evidence-based parenting, child neuroscience, education for the AI era — concrete scripts and scenarios from a mother's perspective.

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Psychology

Personality, attachment, trauma, cognition, therapy — understanding the inner world of yourself and others.

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Doing Together

Cooking, gardening, kitchen science, crafts — hands-on family practice with the kids, age-tiered and sibling-friendly.

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Personal Finance

Cash flow, tax, insurance, housing, retirement, equity comp — manage, protect and plan your own money; actionable, no stock picks.

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Philosophy

Eastern and Western classics, from Plato to Zhuangzi, Kant to Wang Yangming — a dialogue of ideas across time and space.

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Buddhism

Wisdom from the Tripitaka — Prajna, Madhyamaka, Yogacara, Chan, Huayan, Pure Land — four classics per issue, hearing, reflection, practice.

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World Religions

Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Daoism… one tradition per issue — history, distribution, beliefs and practice; neutral and comparative.

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Art & Aesthetics

How to look at paintings, listen to music, read film, appreciate architecture — training perception, East and West in balance.

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Biographies

Leaders, scientists, thinkers, women leaders — key decisions, career turning points, controversies and shadow sides; deep study of one person.

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Book Recommendations

4 thematically linked books per issue — intellectual lineage, reading order, key quotes and controversies; business, science, literature, philosophy.

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Deep Reading

One book a day, read closely — the few core concepts it keeps circling, made clear; read this page instead of the whole book.

2026-08-27

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Novels

The story told whole, then the hard questions — one novel per page: a full-spoiler retelling with its foreshadowing paid off in the prose, then the dilemmas it forces on you.

2026-08-27

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Mathematics

Probability, calculus, linear algebra, topology, information theory — the beauty of mathematics and elegant cross-disciplinary tools.

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Neuroscience

The brain as a physical & computational system — cognition and consciousness first, with an AI cross-read running through every topic.

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Physics

From classical mechanics to the quantum to emergence — how the physical world works, one deep mechanistic path; intuition first, with an AI / complex-systems cross-read each issue.

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Complexity Science

Emergence, chaos, self-organized criticality, networks, power laws, resilience — how local rules grow into global behavior, why it resists prediction, and what to do about it.

2026-08-27

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Evolutionary Biology

The logic of natural selection, evolutionary games, the history of life, the evolution of behavior and mind — mechanism and evidence from molecules to minds, minus the “evolution = progress” myth.

2026-08-27

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History

Cold War turning points, history of technology, business history, geopolitics — specific events and counterfactual thinking, Munger's favorite textbook.

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Investing

Buffett, Munger, Howard Marks, Klarman, Damodaran — deep training in investment decision thinking.

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Civics & Geopolitics

Institutions, law, international relations, geography of power — how the world is governed and divided, neutral and multi-perspective.

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Sociology & Anthropology

Stratification, networks, ritual, kinship, consumption, movements — how groups and culture shape us; classic theory, ethnography and contemporary echoes, scholarly and multi-perspective.

2026-08-27