Yao Yue 岳峣Dec 26, 2022

"... I had wanted to make history move ahead in the same way that a child pulls on a plant to make it grow more quickly.
I believe we must learn to wait as we learn to create. We have to patiently sow the seeds, assiduously water the earth where they are sown and give the plants the time that is their own. One cannot fool a plant any more than one can fool history."

- Václav Havel

Show threadErik Novales

@thinkingfish the thing about patience is that if you wait a long time to see results, you can also be waiting a long time to see that you've gone in the wrong direction 😐

In the past I have leaned towards rushing through things, and I know that I need to work on that patience, but in the back of my mind I worry about wasting headspace and time (kind of like how I will never again use my knowledge of optimizing I/O for spinning discs/disks 😂 )

Dec 26, 2022 at 8:30pmWeb
Show threadYao Yue 岳峣Dec 26, 2022
@yankeefinn Going with the plant analogy, I think the strategy is to introduce a high degree of concurrency- One doesn't sow one seed but many, and some are destined for failure just as others may succeed.
Show threadErik NovalesDec 26, 2022
@thinkingfish
I like that metaphor. I have to learn to constrain myself to ideas that are close enough to each other, so that the context switching penalty isn't too high.
Show threadYao Yue 岳峣Dec 26, 2022
@yankeefinn Yea, I feel in terms of knowledge and skills there's another layer of abstraction at play here. There are many things that offer transferrable skills (often meta skills) and/or reusable building blocks. Minimizing one-off investment could be a feasible strategy to achieve good diversity without feeling overwhelmed.