A few days ago I talked about survivorship bias wrt to the "great devs hack on the holidays" tweet. Starting here:https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/812900346695536640 …
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My mentions subsequently filled up with folks telling me that the OP was just saying that the more you do a thing, the better you get at it.
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That's not how I interpreted the original "great devs hack on holidays" tweet, but I can see how you could extract that narrative.
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And given how many people did, it's worth considering that interpretation a bit more deeply.
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On the surface it seems straightforward - maybe even obvious. How could it be controversial to say "do something more to get better at it"?
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I have three points I want to make about this. The first is that this statement actually does not represent how human learning works.
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All the best developers I know don't make sweeping generalizations about complex topics.
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I guess he was a CEO not a developer
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