I got about ~40% faster solving sudoku after casually watching an hour of YouTube (turns out sudoku YouTube is a thing) and now I’m wondering how many other things in life are shaped like this.
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Does this transfer to SW? In most software engineering, your ability to design systems and libraries improves rapidly by even reading and analyzing few designs. I definitely improved a lot (un-quantified) just from pouring through AOSA book. https://www.aosabook.org/en/
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You know how TV has "let's visit a celebrity and have them show us their shoe closet"? I've long wanted a video podcast of "let's screenshare a distinguished geek and have them show us their desktop, IDE, shell, email".
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@visakanv you'll like this tweet and the two above it
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I like almost everything about Patrick
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1064776700335075328?s=21 …https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1064776700335075328 …
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@andy_matuschak did a bit of this: videotaping his writing process https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1257334987390685185?s=21 …https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1257334987390685185 … - End of conversation
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After casually playing chess online for 3 years, this post from
@danluu (https://danluu.com/p95-skill/ ) inspired me to 1/ read a chess book & 2/ evaluate my games afterward. I went from 59%-ile on lichess to 90%-ile in 6 weeks -
Can you share the book you read?
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I’ve always had a theory that anyone could do/understand anything, as long as it was explained to them in the right way for them to understand. So much of life is following small scripts (processes), but until you know the scripts, it’s all “work”
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It probably also applies to a lot of household chores (how to fold laundry, cut different food items,etc)
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