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I have this odd fear that sharing what I learned today will make me look stupid. “Look it’s 2023 this dude just learned about http error codes”. Silly example but you get the idea.
I love this post for this exact reason: https://overreacted.io/things-i-dont-know-as-of-2018/ It's written by Dan Abramov who has been instrumental in React's development
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Wow, that's actually deeper than it sounds. I do wonder though: did a lot of famous scientists (like Einstein, Feynman, Turing, etc) use writing as a vehicle for learning?
> When historian Charles Weiner looked over a pile of Richard Feynman’s notebooks, he called them a wonderful ‘record of his day-to-day work’. > “No, no!”, Feynman objected strongly. > “They aren’t a record of my thinking process. They are my thinking process. I actually did the work on the paper.” > “Well,” Weiner said, “The work was done in your head, but the record of it is still here.” > “No, it’s not a record, n…
Then we augment/externalized our short and long term memory from our minds with writing.
You'll always find a symbol covered napkin next to someone who's working out something difficult, without any writing paper.
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I have this odd fear that sharing what I learned today will make me look stupid. “Look it’s 2023 this dude just learned about http error codes”. Silly example but you get the idea.
I love this post for this exact reason: https://overreacted.io/things-i-dont-know-as-of-2018/ It's written by Dan Abramov who has been instrumental in React's development
I started publishing "TIL" posts a few years ago and everything in this post here resonated 100% with my experience of writing those. The great thing about TILs is that once you form a solid set of habits around them they can be extremely quick to put together: the majority of my TIL posts take between 15 minutes and half an hour to write. I make extensive personal notes on everything I'm doing (in GitHub issues thre…
I have this odd fear that sharing what I learned today will make me look stupid. “Look it’s 2023 this dude just learned about http error codes”. Silly example but you get the idea.
I remember an old PhD comics strip where a professor says “Remember kids, the only difference between fooling around and science is writing it down.”. In the context the goal was obviously for it to be funny but it is actually a very good and wise advice.
Wow, that's actually deeper than it sounds. I do wonder though: did a lot of famous scientists (like Einstein, Feynman, Turing, etc) use writing as a vehicle for learning?
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Wow, that's actually deeper than it sounds. I do wonder though: did a lot of famous scientists (like Einstein, Feynman, Turing, etc) use writing as a vehicle for learning?
I think you could probably consider mathematic notation as a form of writing.
That said, people don't publish papers that are just math notation. There's surrounding words to explain and motivate concepts.
I started publishing "TIL" posts a few years ago and everything in this post here resonated 100% with my experience of writing those. The great thing about TILs is that once you form a solid set of habits around them they can be extremely quick to put together: the majority of my TIL posts take between 15 minutes and half an hour to write. I make extensive personal notes on everything I'm doing (in GitHub issues thre…
I have this odd fear that sharing what I learned today will make me look stupid. “Look it’s 2023 this dude just learned about http error codes”. Silly example but you get the idea.
I don't recommend applying this technique specifically when reading this article, or you could become entrapped in an endless cycle.