I am looking for a self-improvement alternative to doom scrolling social media in my downtime. In the past, I have done mostly career oriented courses (tech/computer science), but I’m tired of those, want to branch out. Has anyone taken a MOOC class, not necessarily for any specific objectibe, that was especially good?
Stanford and Harvard both have all sorts of interesting lecture series online! Harvard has stuff like urban design, religious history, art history, the relationship between cooking and physics, biology, Chinese history and much more!
https://pll.harvard.edu/catalog/free
Haven’t taken any with Stanford but here’s a link to their catalogue:
Oxford Continuing Education has a lot of interesting courses. I did one in Inequality & Labour Markets to give me a taster of what a masters would be like, and if I was able to consistently devote time to studying each week.
Cant recommend meditation enough.
I pursued Zen seriously for a while, I still practice at times, should do it more.
What are you passionate about?
Music (but not a very good musician), other cultures and international travel, history.
Have you tried video editing? You can do a lot with a good song and curiosity.
Hey I’m not a good musician either, maybe we should collaborate! Either way join us at !musicproduction@sh.itjust.works
I did, thanks!
Sweet, what kind of music do you like or play? Any instrument?
I play keyboards, have a decent electronic piand which doubles as a MIDI controller. I like prog, the nerdier end of techno/electronica/hip-hop, and classical. LCD Soundsystem, Stereolab, King Crimson.
Sounds like we would have some stylistic overlap then. What DAW do you use?
Ableton Live. Max looks interesting, and one of these days I am going to try it out.
You can download Great Lectures on many high-level topics
