I'm a fairly experienced teacher (8 semesters at college level, couple of online things) but only rarely have been motivated/engaged enough in the process to be more than mediocre at it. I generally need a stronger motive than simply being invested in students' learning/growing.
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Replying to @ankurrsharma
Yeah that's not enough motive for longer than 1-2 days at most. Even there it's tough. I've made pretty big money in 1-day workshops several times, but even there, I was interested for reasons beyond money.
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Replying to @vgr
that's good, it has probably helped in you not turning into a patreon-addled cartoon or a grifter yet.
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Replying to @ankurrsharma
This is actually acid-testing plans to do more with ribbonfarm school (going to add at least 1-2 courses to it this quarter)
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Replying to @ankurrsharma
Yeah trying to "teach refactoring" the way the LW ecosystem tries to "teach rationality" seems like some sort of admission of failure of imagination to me. I did the writing course because that served a larger purpose of developing contributor pipeline. Need that kind of motive.
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Replying to @vgr
yeah i don't think refactoring can be taught well anyway. the whole point is imagination and selecting for students who want to learn it as a skill just seems like adverse selection, just like in the rationality movement
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Yeah, my one thought is to get at it obliquely, like a course I really want to do is on 2x2s...that's like a schezwan sauce business world mission of mine... make 2x2s great again
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Replying to @vgr
lol i'm awful at them; if you can teach me you're basically the feynman of 2x2s
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