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This still haunts me https://www.nashvail.me/blog/stop-learning https://www.nashvail.me/blog/stop-learning. You got to build stuff too, not just learn. Still,
by barrenko 5y ago
This still haunts me https://www.nashvail.me/blog/stop-learning https://www.nashvail.me/blog/stop-learning.
You got to build stuff too, not just learn. Still, you also have to figure out if you're a builder or a "learner".
I like to figure stuff out, once I know the solution, my interest is minimal.
- bangarsanju12 5y agoThis is Insane !!
- cityzen 5y agoI cannot get over the irony that next to that article he has an ad for "Take my Git course on Skillshare".
- VBprogrammer 5y ago> You can be in the back seat and travel to a place a hundred times. But until you take the driver's seat you'll never know the way. I know this phenomenon well. In fact, when we moved into our new house which was an easy drive from where we used to live, I drove here half a dozen times using the GPS and still had no idea where I was going until I forced myself to do the trip without turning the GPS on.
- silisili 5y agoIt's really weird, but you're right, I noticed the same thing. Anymore I try to avoid using GPS anywhere in my city, and it's both taught me a lot and also 'explore' a lot. My wife always asks if I'm afraid of getting lost, but I always tell her 'ah, all roads connect somewhere', which makes me feel better at least. I can only think of a couple times I truly felt turned around enough to pull out GPS.
- nicbou 5y agoKeeping north up on your GPS also helps a lot. At least you get a better sense of where you're heading.
- avnigo 5y agoI took "looping" and "incapacity" to mean not taking a leap. Growth usually happens outside your comfort zone. Remove the safety net and ask, 'what's the worst that could happen?'
- randcraw 5y agoYeah, "incapacity" is the wrong term, since more learning should never decrease your capacity to do something. He's against the overlearning of a skill in a classroom, especially since you won't really learn how to do most things until you close the books and just go do it.
- swiley 5y agoI've noticed I can just hack out pretty complex stuff if I stick to APIs and languages I already know, often this is even faster than using other people's libraries for it.
- dehrmann 5y agoI'm really bad at closing old browser tabs, but Firefox was getting sluggish, so it was time. I started bookmarking interesting article, then realized something: I had significantly more things to read than things to do. What's the point of all this reading if I'm not going to put it to use?
- vitaminCPP 5y agoThis is good. It made me think at the "tutorial hell" concept.