One thing I have realized is in the face of unlimited ever growing knowledge the skill of segmenting, structuring and packaging concepts is the hardest damn thing
Raghav Agrawal
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Raw knowledge is continuous, messy, context-dependent, infinite but a concept or model is discrete, bounded, reusable, stable
So when you try to structure something, you are cutting reality into meaningful chunks without losing what matters
A Look into the Most Starred Repos on Github by Vlad Rachev
https://www.irregex.vc/posts/a-look-into-the-most-starred-repos
For anything, you can try to map a space of possible concerns and actions
what concerns are primary?
what actions are possible?
what actions are blocked?
what matters if this fails?
what kinds of breakdown become visible from each concern?
A thing is not best understood as an isolated object with fixed properties, but as a structured space of possible human concerns and actions.
Breakdown reveals that structure, but concern and action define it in the first place.
Structure does not appear during smooth use. It appears during breakdown.
You won’t see the structure unless something goes wrong. It is revealed when action fails.
From the design philosophy reader
CHAPTER 26 UNDERSTANDING, ONTOLOGY, THROWNNESS AND READINESS-TO-HAND - Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/design-philosophy-reader-9780857853493/
Failure reveals the real dependencies of the system.
Dawn Ahukanna@impactology @RuthMalan @simulo @stephenpa
I don’t have 2 extra hours. I prioritize 30 min timeboxes unleashing my curiousity and exploring related material/researching a hypothesis rather than planning for an unknown (to me) topic.
Learn and try feedback loop and then plan and deliver.
A method an engineer friend @NotyourVivek uses for upskilling while having a day job
He is an electrical engineer
He calls it Reverse Engineering Through Functional Decomposition
RE: https://mastodon.social/@impactology/116262353769862527
If you had extra two hours everyday to learn a new skill, how would you go about scoping your learning?
What will you do to practice that skill daily?
Folks on the TL, how many hours did you dedicate everyday to practice skills that you get paid for?
And if you had to re-learn them today how would you practice them differently? How would you manage your time?