Posts tagged "learning"

A pattern I keep running into across very different parts of learning: every real shortcut turns out to just move the difficulty somewhere less visible, not remove it.

Not reading advice in general — specifically what to do with a book full of exercises and proofs that's too dense to read the way you'd read anything else.

Motivation runs out. What's replaced it is a small set of habits that make studying a hard subject less dependent on how I happen to feel that day.

Notes on the gap between knowing how to call a library and actually understanding what it's doing, and why I decided to close it the slow way.