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Leveling up = discovering a stable new unit behavior at next level, which means driving some new infrastructure literacy into muscle memory. Eg: writing on paper —> computer = typing and editor use become unconscious Typing —> blogging = Wordpress workflow becomes unconscious
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One reason I downcycled myself from engineering to writing is the level of jank you have to unconsciously internalize at each level up is far lower
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By this definition, the only new level-up I’ve achieved recently beyond writing is 3D printing Electronics, embedded programming I’m stuck trying to stabilize a level 0 behavioral unit. Some chunk of output I can reliably sit down and produce comparable to “blog” or “3D print”
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Level 0 to level 1 is hard because you need the conscious “language” literacy of the unit itself, not just the unconscious infrastructure literacy. I still can’t think in the language of electronic components on a breadboard for eg. Stuck in textbook Kirchhoff’s laws/ohm’s law
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I think this is a big problem with how electronics is written about and taught. My experience was that I gained a lot more literacy by building synthesizer kits and learning to recognize common blocks than any of the many Forest Mims books or Art of Electronics book
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fully agree. It’s unfortunately hard to find great guides for it in my experience but you can learn a lot if you try the basic circuits and have a scope to watch outputs.
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I bought a cheap $100 pocket scope that’s been gathering dust because I really didn’t know where to get started. Do you have a list of starter op-amp experiments? I recall doing a few in undergrad electronics lab, but that was like 1 hour in 1994
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