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I love this bit here: >The subheading under this rule would be: Try your best to be right, but don’t worry when you’re wrong. Repeatedly. If you feel uncomfort
by ubertaco 2y ago
I love this bit here:
>The subheading under this rule would be: Try your best to be right, but don’t worry when you’re wrong. Repeatedly. If you feel uncomfortable, or like an impostor, good. You’re pushing yourself. Don’t assume you know everything, but try your best anyway, and let the internet correct you when you are inevitably wrong. Wear your noobyness on your sleeve.
It requires an ongoing practice of humility _and_ extending grace to yourself for your own mistakes or misunderstandings (on the basis of "everyone makes mistakes and has to learn"), which can be a good starting point for showing that same grace to others.
- swyx 2y agothank you! i think also it addresses what i perceive to be the #1 criticism of LIP from others - that it creates a lot of "overnight experts" in a thing. so "wear your noobyness on your sleeve" is also "be honest about how new you are to a thing out of respect to your reader" - and if they know more than you, it prompts them to teach/guide rather than complain/dismiss.
- ramenbytes 2y agoReminds me of a favorite quote from Fahrenheit 451: > Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people’s faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.