Track · 2:08 · Liner note
Upsert Your Mindset
A play on upsert, the insert-or-update database operation, applied to learning: if a belief or skill already exists, update it, and if not, create it.
An upsert never asks whether the row exists first; it checks the key, then does whichever is right. Upsert Your Mindset borrows that discipline for learning. When a new tool arrives, match it to what you already know, update the parts that changed and insert the parts that are genuinely new.
It is a less anxious way to keep up with a field that reinvents its vocabulary every year. Most new ideas are old ideas with a new key. Merge them with care and keep your working knowledge intact.