Silicon Valley has a lot of wanna-be Yodas. But Paul Graham has always seemed like the real deal to me.
Thus, as I’ve never known @paulg to be wrong at this level before, I must simply assume that I am not understanding what he is saying.
Because this seems dangerously wrong.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095993046276194304 …
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Hi Paul. That’s great! But it’s great for a particular class of learners to which you belong. There is an entirely different classes of learners who learn primarily through abstraction. That’s my class. Your class calls my class learning disabled. We’re not. We’re super learners.
I'm willing to believe there are people like this, but judging from the people I've taught things to so far (YC founders and my kids and their friends) they seem to be a fairly small minority. And surely even you used verbs for a long time before knowing what a verb was, no?
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A tiny minority of guitarists played upside down & backwards or tuning their instrument all in fourths. That class includes Jimi Hendrix & Stanley Jordan. All 3 major physics equation were found largely by beauty. It doesn’t work generally. Watson&Crick were incompetent at chem.
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This isn’t about numbers of individuals. It’s about impact and not marginalizing abstraction’s super learners by comparing them to those who benefit most from learning-by-doing. But yes, we all use a mixture of practice and theory. It’s just not simply one size fits all.
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I suspect this colloquy may have a certain affinity with that engendered by this fascinating blog post by Fields medalist
@wtgowers.http://bit.ly/2S3bL7HThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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