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Poll: How do you prefer to learn about any conceptual stack, like computer stack from microcode to app UI, music from notes to counterpoint, or buildings from rebar and concrete to paint?
  • Bottom to top
    28.1%
  • Top to bottom
    30.4%
  • Middle out
    30%
  • Other
    11.5%
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best strategy: switching between the three options every time you are stuck which level you're investigating (top/middle/bottom) should be the result of a good question relevant to an actionable task. super fast learning
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Why then What then How Why: purposes and subgoals. Top-to-bottom, starting from a purpose I have. What: causal model. Order by my biggest confusion, learn until I believe outcome predictions. How: hands-on actions and observable outcomes. Bottom-to-top: predict, act, observe.