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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I’m extraordinarily bad at this
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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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Hah, I bought an op-amp assortment based just on that intuition. I think the next level up from basic led and motor circuits is not arduinos but op-amps
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Most of my experience is with sensor conditioning for microcontrollers and doing audio stuff. Simply buffering and scaling/offsetting voltages, maybe a sample-and-hold or comparator configuration, are good places to start. I like to use photocells to supply variable input.
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