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by izzygonzalez 5y ago
That's a great lower-stakes way to approach it. I turned to Twitter because of the threading and big computer science community. I think the vital part is the aspect of accountability. Even just committing to updating a friend on progr
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by izzygonzalez 5y ago
Woops! Fixed. Thanks for taking the time to let me know :)
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by izzygonzalez 5y ago
In analyzing my personal motivations and looking at "common sense" knowledge and psych research on the topic, I've come to the conclusion that we gain a lot of motivational energy from others. We live in worlds of stories and
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by izzygonzalez 5y ago
When I lay down for bed I play a track called Pink Noise for Sleeping on a loop and set a 3 hour alarm that shuts off the music when it runs out. https://music.apple.com/us/album/pink-noise-for-sleeping/111...
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by izzygonzalez 5y ago
Regarding doodling, it seems that any active productive study method is at least somewhat beneficial. I've found this in my own personal experiments. For example, testing myself with cloze deletions, creating Anki cards, generating min
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by izzygonzalez 5y ago
It's a thought-extinguishing tactic. It attempts to redirect or scatter attention away from the topic at hand. This could be in a misguided sincere attempt to draw analogies, or could be more nefarious. Whataboutism seems to commonly o
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by izzygonzalez 5y ago
When I was first learning React, I spent time visualizing the coding of building-block concepts. After a few sessions, the concepts would become well-ingrained because I "simulated" the writing of the code hundreds of times in my
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by izzygonzalez 5y ago
This the line of thinking I'm interested in. If the model holds true, could it be generally applicable elsewhere? Specifically programming. Modeling/emulating others is a well known method of learning. I guess I may have answered
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by izzygonzalez 5y ago
It's like programming. You don't need anyone's support or help to pick it up and start building things. If you don't seek out resources, though, you are liable to fall into bad habits and constantly reinventing the wheel
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by izzygonzalez 5y ago
Regarding control, viewing goals as outcomes that I can influence is changing my life. An objective is "Be the greatest programmer of all time". The outputs are things like, "Find and read the top 3 most important books on pr