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This is very good advice, even though 95% of the people who hear it will still think they're special and don't need to learn their craft before jumping into coo
by Dav3xor 10y ago
This is very good advice, even though 95% of the people who hear it will still think they're special and don't need to learn their craft before jumping into cool stuff.
The thing I always remember from reading Feynman's various autobiographical essays -- he would always try to figure out something from first principles.
If you don't know the 'simple, always true' laws of what you're working with, you're going to be afloat on a sea of conjecture and fuzzy thinking.
- paulddraper 10y agoI can't upvote this enough. "From first principles" is the only way to master something -- math, programming, automotive maintenance, whatever. There aren't ever that many foundational principles to a field of a study, but if you understand them -- really understand, until it becomes intuitive -- you're 80% the way to being an expert.