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They're not bugs, they're fluency errors or something. I'm a bad learner in general, in part because all this preprocessing to set up my iteration assemblage to learn a thing feels like bureaucracy I get wrong all the time.
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This is why when I *do* successfully learn a skill it tends to be where someone else has prepared a sandbox environment that has all the pieces scoped in properly, with the right UX to focus on just learning the "touch patterns" to do things with the assemblage.
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Like take my annual ritual attempt to migrate my limited coding needs from Matlab to Python. Matlab is very much a closed-world sandbox where you can focus on the trial and error. Python, I think *just* got there with Anaconda. Even then it is too open for easy learning.
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Thing is an open iteration assemblage (one where you need to constantly be doing adds/removes and package management and inserting new things you're not fluent in...) is qualitatively a level harder than a closed one.
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Another example that doesn't cast me in as much of an inept light. I find working on courses much harder. The iteration assemblage is MUCH bigger: Teachable, Zoom (for recording video), PowerPoint, an organized folder for materials, Stripe, marketing on blog etc.
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"Working on my course" means ranging over a very large, recursively nested set of things that contain more things. The REPL has a very low "visit frequency" for any individual piece of it. You can't gain fluency in larger patterns because they unfold over weeks, not minutes
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I can "get good" (in an toolchain/infrastructure fluency sense) at any given piece of it, like video editing, but overall fluency is a bitch to attain.
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The easiest iteration assemblages to work with have only 1 object in conscious view. That's why slide decks are so easy. It's one object -- unless you're so computer illiterate that the keyboard and touchpad feel like part of the conscious loop.
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Roam is in this early stage for me. I've never been big on keyboard shortcuts, but Roam relies on them so much you have to get fluent in them. So my iteration assemblage is: the roam page itself, the little helpbox at the bottom right, and occasionally, google.
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This is why I’ve settled on big cohorts for my courses, which funny enough was inspired by your long form writing course in Dec. 2016. It’s easier to start over and recreate the whole thing as a live performance than to meticulously iterate on the details of pre-made material
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