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by neurocroc 3319 days ago
Currently the entirety of the mind map was hand picked and curated by me. I did use the internet a lot though as there are quite many threads online that have recommendations on what the 'best ways of learning X' is.

I also try to ask help from other people, ideally experts in their fields on how to best structure the content. Mathematics one is quite challenging just because everything is really so connected as far as ideas go.

I hope as this projects gets popular, more people will be willing to help and improve it. It is a collaborative process after all.

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I've had pretty good success crowdsourcing recommendations for https://www.findlectures.com by asking offering a weekly email of talks, and prompting people for recommended speakers / conferences on sign-up.

I have a separate form on the site to get suggestions, but the email signup one has better quality because it weed out people who want to spam the site with their own content.

Hey Gary, I love what you have done with find lectures. I use it quite often actually to find material. I am thinking of perhaps making a newsletter for this project saying 'what is new' in the mind map. What do you think?
Yeah, I think that would be interesting. Let me know if you make one!
I did. :)

Here it is (bit.ly/learn-anything-letter).

Signed up! I'll be interested to see how the Patreon thing goes as well.
By the way, while researching about Metacademy I have stumbled upon their developer group[0] where they were discussing challenges they were facing, thought you may find it useful. Good luck! [0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/metacademy-dev