CorwinTheGrey

Trying to cram the 30 years of code and tech I missed into as short of time as possible. Everything you could want to know is out there on the web, but it's messy, layered, and doesn't teach mastery. I've seen how fast a grad student can learn when I turn the screws and max out…

The future will not be televised. Reality is too strong for most people's taste.

AI needs interface tech that lets you sub-vocalize. Especially with agents coming. And personalized 'trigger' patterns like grunts, hmmm, and/or things like clicks. I don't want to talk to the room, empty or full of people. And I definitely don't want to stare at a phone screen…

The value of competency and mastery is going to follow a geometric curve.

Working on trying to learn functional programming and today is recursion. Brain like oatmeal. Looks like going to be a superpower once fully grokked, but right now feels like recursively banging my head into a wall.

Avoiding conflict is ruining your life. Being too agreeable screams that you don't know what you want... or you do know what you want but can't muster up the strength to pursue it. Here's how to be more disagreeable: letters.thedankoe.com/p/how-to-be-mo…

even a slight amount of pain will mean no one looked. the most golden fruit are behind thorns, the rest are picked

“Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status.” — Derek Sivers

There will always be demand for first-principles based mastery. Art, code, math, reasoning, writing, engineering, etc. Wonderbread fills shelves and bellies, but handmade sourdough carries a premium.

We need family pack subs!

Loving this. @wagslane boot . dev Some great geek references along the way... Everything from Tolkien to FullMetal!

Chicks hatching just in time for easter. Kids are ecstatic.

After detoxing from tv and radio news for a year, you come to realize how hilariously bad the speech patterns and physical posturing of the actors are. it's REALLY bad. Highly artificial, and not how normal humans behave or sound at all. Notlme of the inflections match/sync with…

We should have timed, proctored, study-sessions, followed by leisurely quizzes. If anyone wants to build out and sell study surveillance as a new app, happy to game it out and be part of design for a bit of the equity/sales. Get people to pay to have AI invade their privacy. 🤡

Hmm, in stress, cortisol seems to be way more useful during the learning process than as part of retrieval. Ergo, we should shift the 'testing environment' into our study habits, and consider whether testing would be more accurate if we tested application instead of retention.…

Pondering the role of stress for learning and mastery. Seems like there is a Goldilocks zone where it turbo charges the process without causing harm, and there's likely room for High Intensity Interval type practice. The internet provides us with access to the world's knowledge,…

Humans like the absolutist simplicity of opposites. See how many binaries you can quickly rattle off (up down, hot cold, good bad, expensive cheap, etc.). The problem is that reality isn't binary, it's complicated. Deconstructing your mental binaries is a powerful contrarian…

Ask yourself how much you are willing to pay to learn something one on one from an expert. Then consider how much you are willing to pay for a piece of paper that says you earned a grade in a class taught by the same expert. Boggles the mind.

Elite institutions charge a lot for tuition. You could pay the same rate, about 250$ an hour for 30 hours, and get a PhD to teach you 1-on-1 at the limit of your ability to progress. No degree, but you would actually learn. Some of us would love to educate people that really want…

I suspect that a lot of these kids being kept out of their top school choices for various reasons would be horrifically disappointed by the experience if they had gotten in. Unfortunately we've largely gotten out of the business of recognizing potential and refining it. The lack…