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Wow. That’s exactly how I feel. I’ve always focused on concepts over specifics, thinking that I’ll figure out the details as I do a thing. People don’t seem to
by j33zusjuice 4y ago
Wow. That’s exactly how I feel. I’ve always focused on concepts over specifics, thinking that I’ll figure out the details as I do a thing. People don’t seem to want that, though. Maybe I’m looking for the wrong kind of work.
- mansoon 4y agoPlease let me know if you ever figure out what kind of work fits... I feel like the move would have been to go very deep on something. Too late for that now.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoI think I've solved this for myself. I'm a concept-first learner too, but don't have that much of a problem learning ad-hoc details of random libraries and tools. I think what's going on is that, at some point early on, my brain figured out that if the thing doesn't seem to fit a coherent, sensible concept, then there's likely a story explaining the delta. I started to think mostly in terms of guessing what kind of problems and tradeoffs the author faced, which would explain the peculiar design. I found myself searching for information about past iterations, previous use cases - anything that could let me correctly guess at the story behind the seemingly random thing. This works for me pretty well in software. I still have problems with things requiring memorization, though - like some bits of chemistry, or the grammar of German language.
- giantg2 4y agoI'm incapable of retaining the ad-hoc specifics. Most of the shit they want me to learn I use once and then it's on to other shit. I'll never improve like that.