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From childhood, I’ve needed to understand the abstract principles first, so I can organize the specifics in my mind. When teaching, I have to remind myself that this is unusual, and insert examples early.
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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. twitter.com/paulg/status/1…
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What I find is that before I can learn something complicated from the ground up, I need to have properly-calibrated feelings about it. The subject needs to have some kind of emotional landscape or narrative into which all the facts fit in a memorable way.
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