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i wish people would stop distilling their experiences into pithy blog posts. the experience is the valuable bit; if you just supply the lessons learned, no less
by joshu 14y ago
i wish people would stop distilling their experiences into pithy blog posts. the experience is the valuable bit; if you just supply the lessons learned, no lessons are actually learned.
- rachelbythebay 14y agoSpeaking as someone who learned a lot from Usenet back in the day, I'm going to have to disagree with you. Remembering nuggets of data from old posts has made me able to pull off feats of magic at times when I shouldn't have known anything about a system in question (because I had never touched one before). Even just knowing where to look can give you a head start. Now, if I never remembered this stuff, okay, it would have been time wasted. If that's the case for you and you don't take away anything from blog posts (the closest thing we have to rich Usenet posts any more), then perhaps you could try not reading them.
- joshu 14y agoDid the nuggets concern software or people? I think useful advice about the latter is far more rare about the other kind.
- johnrob 14y agoThe paragraph titled 'Identifying a problem vs fabricating one' is a rewording of the most important lesson: make something people want. The problem is, we all know this one and have read hundreds of version of it. Experience is the valuable part because, after hitting the wall, you look back at the same advice and realize how much of it you ignored. The lessons are valuable; they just fall on deaf ears for most of us.