Jeff AtwoodI humbly submit that there is only one way to learn things: the hard way.
GrumpyDad 🇺🇦🇵🇸@codinghorror Kind of like all safety regulations are written in blood...
@grumpydad oh I like this one a lot
lertsenem@codinghorror There's also the Very Hard Way, which is the hard way plus you have to stand upside down on your head while learning.
Ian@codinghorror Are you promoting a new Zed Shaw book? ;)
@soviut hard no
@codinghorror Oh no. Has Zed been up to some BS I should know about?
@soviut has he ever done anything that wasn't BS I should know about?
@codinghorror He wrote Mongrel, he called out misogyny in the rails community, mocked the "rails rockstar" with a satirical website, and wrote a bunch of "learn [language] the hard way" books.
Meanwhile, DHH was supported that racist alt-right trucker convoy masquerading as a blue collar protest here in Canada.
@soviut fair. I only knew the very early stuff.
Raglan Niall 
@codinghorror tell me about it. I thought i could build a house. I thought i could create a startup. 2 years later i live in a building site & hope to get a customer _soon_!
The Long Tail@codinghorror Some people can learn from books, a very few can learn from the mistakes of others, and then there are those people that have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Devon Shaw 
@codinghorror Incidentally, this is a lesson I never seem to learn the easy way.
circly@codinghorror I saw a great video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3kkZpCPaAk
Thirsty Merc - The Hard Way
Ian Mackenzie@codinghorror I think my favourite version of this is "good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement"
artfulrobot@ianmackenzie @codinghorror a promising way out of this conundrum is that we can experience bad judgement of others; we are not alone. So I'd take it one step beyond:... Good judgement comes from the capacity to learn from experience of bad judgement; the capacity to learn comes from not being judged as one who won't learn! Not quite as snappy as The hard way!
Fritz Adalis@codinghorror
Incorrect; you can also learn from Chemical Safety Board videos.
Incorrect; you can also learn from Chemical Safety Board videos.