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I'm the same way. I find that choosing a project that inspires me takes me much further than just saying "I want to learn X, let me follow a tutorial". On a re
by omosubi 7y ago
I'm the same way. I find that choosing a project that inspires me takes me much further than just saying "I want to learn X, let me follow a tutorial".
On a related note, I just read nassim taleb's anti fragile which has a section arguing that most progress comes from people tinkering with things to get something they can sell or to solve some problem they have rather than academics trying to understand things from basic principles. I don't agree with it entirely but that and my way of learning has led me to value experiential learning much higher than society does currently
- porknubbins 7y agoTutorials on youtube are generally terrible for learning because they don’t show you any of the design decisions, mistakes, thought process etc. As if what stood between you and programming Tetris in Rust was not knowing the order of keystrokes. Udemy has (a few) authors with much better motivated examples I find.
- shantly 7y ago> I'm the same way. I find that choosing a project that inspires me takes me much further than just saying "I want to learn X, let me follow a tutorial". To piggyback on that, I need either a real project or genuine curiosity. I'm terrible at making myself learn something that I'm not 1) immediately applying to real work—paid or personal—not a make-work learning project, or 2) just really dog-chasing-a-bone interested, and I cannot gin that up or fake myself into that mode, though sometimes I can start poking around a topic and find something that gets me going. Fortunately for me I'm fuckin' good at working that way. Unfortunately it made school a real pain in my ass.