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I like to build things. Glider pilot. Eyes bigger than bookshelf.

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    1. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots May 20

      Star Simpson Retweeted Simone Giertz

      Simone gets at a really critical point here, which is how to make it okay for yourself to do the kind of stumbling around that happens when learning anything new. To that end, her machines are the exact opposite of uselesshttps://twitter.com/SimoneGiertz/status/994314752477118464 …

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      Simone GiertzVerified account @SimoneGiertz
      ✋https://youtu.be/c0bsKc4tiuY 🤚 pic.twitter.com/Q3UlypO8eX
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    2. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots May 20

      Kids learn everything quickly compared to adults, and are almost always willing to make mistakes at a much higher rate than adults are. Language starts with "babbling" — I think it's just as important to "babble" in anything you're trying to learn.

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    3. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots May 20

      The analogy of babbling includes hardware! As a child I remember saving dead alkaline batteries and making big circles on the carpeted floor of my room with them, trying to make circuits happen (-- somehow?). An adult would almost never allow themselves that kind of experiment.

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      Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots May 20

      (It was pretty aspirational, too until the one day I completed the circuit with less-than-dead batteries and tried to use an un-bent paperclip to complete the loop - which briefly turned red-hot between my fingertips.)

      10:16 PM - 20 May 2018
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        2. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots May 20

          A separate line of thought here is that I often pursue learning hobbies, and am often asked if the things I am learning are "hard" to learn which feels like a .. hard question to answer. I've never found difficult the things I felt enthusiasm for - and it must vary by person.

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        3. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots May 20

          Things take time to pick up — which is different than that thing being arduous.

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        4. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots May 20

          I have found that the quality of learning has almost always diminished my sense of the passage of time. Something might take quite a while to attain basic mastery of, but with enthusiasm to learn that thing, it hardly seems accurate to say they were hard at all.

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        5. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots May 20

          I will probably continue to wonder what it means for something to be "hard" to learn, but I presently think that most things that are said to be such, are just things that take some enthusiasm and time.

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        2. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami May 20
          Replying to @starsandrobots

          First Star Simpson Problems

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        3. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots May 20
          Replying to @dakami

          "Oh shit, it worked"

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        4. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots May 20
          Replying to @starsandrobots @dakami

          I can still remember looking at the melted line it put onto my tiny kid fingertips.

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        1. Karen E. Robinson‏ @kerobinso Jul 11
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          Karen E. Robinson Retweeted nosferamu 🦇

          😜https://twitter.com/prinxemu/status/1015765362170826752?s=21 …

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          nosferamu 🦇 @prinxeMu
          What's the most On Brand™️ story you have from your early childhood. Mine is when my mom told me not to touch the electric stove when it was red, because that meant it was hot, so I made direct eye contact with her and slapped my hand down on the stove top.
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        1. Sexy Immigrant Costume‏ @TVHEES May 21
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          This brings me back to dismantling electronics as a teen and learning that just because you unplugged something, doesn't mean it won't give you a nasty shock.

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