The upswing of awesome sounds like a great way to prepare yourself to build things that are 90% correct with a 10% catastrophic failure rate.
I really try to keep a more emotionally neutral stance on all of my code and my abilities. If I want to indulge in arrogance I philosophize.
In the end, it's the same thing over and over again. Symbols swapping with others symbols denoting some kind of esoterically tangible, but ultimately fleeting, meaning.
It'd be nice to not feel perpetually stuck in the desert of despair though. I used to think being there meant I was learning stuff, because I had intuitively learned from repeat failure that after failure comes success. Turns out you can think about yourself plodding along at a steady pace, with no comparison to anyone else, as long as you stop assuming that there exists a clear, coherent, ordered organization to knowledge.
There exists such a thing in school, or at least the commentary on a topological sorting would have you believe. Technology doesn't always develop and get released in school though. Sometimes it develops in webs that are can not be causally described, because thought and skill do not necessarily travel in measurable directions, nor is their instantiation completely definable/observable.
People apply too many theoretical concepts to describe, dictate, and organize reality without understanding the effect on perception.
You've made an interesting comment. I've felt the same way about some of the things you've mentioned, such as
"In the end, it's the same thing over and over again. Symbols swapping with others symbols denoting some kind of esoterically tangible, but ultimately fleeting, meaning."
I feel that way about all the different languages, new ones or old. Just different symbols that distill down to machine instructions.
My question to you, how do you approach learning? Learning new things and marking your progress?
What gives you the satisfaction that you've made progress in "learning" a given topic?
> My question to you, how do you approach learning? Learning new things and marking your progress? What gives you the satisfaction that you've made progress in "learning" a given topic?
I don't know. Right now I am learning how to not know when I am learning, because I have determined that measuring learning in any form can often be a barrier that actually prevents me from learning.
I really try to keep a more emotionally neutral stance on all of my code and my abilities. If I want to indulge in arrogance I philosophize.
In the end, it's the same thing over and over again. Symbols swapping with others symbols denoting some kind of esoterically tangible, but ultimately fleeting, meaning.
It'd be nice to not feel perpetually stuck in the desert of despair though. I used to think being there meant I was learning stuff, because I had intuitively learned from repeat failure that after failure comes success. Turns out you can think about yourself plodding along at a steady pace, with no comparison to anyone else, as long as you stop assuming that there exists a clear, coherent, ordered organization to knowledge.
There exists such a thing in school, or at least the commentary on a topological sorting would have you believe. Technology doesn't always develop and get released in school though. Sometimes it develops in webs that are can not be causally described, because thought and skill do not necessarily travel in measurable directions, nor is their instantiation completely definable/observable.
People apply too many theoretical concepts to describe, dictate, and organize reality without understanding the effect on perception.