Tech — Work — Ramblings

by Mike Kalvas

202208211404 Learning to follow and learning to lead

What you learn from others you can use to follow; What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.1

If you put in the hard work (202208211352 There is no shortcut to learning) to learn something for yourself, you'll know it through and through. You'll be able to make connections to other pieces of information. You will have constructed durable knowledge for your life (202109060835 Knowledge is constructed).

I often think of this in relation to 202109061338 Software Engineering where some of the simplest tools to learn end up causing the most pain down the road, whereas tools that teach you how they work even if it takes more effort end up being more stable, reliable, and maintainable. #thread (move to own zettel)

  1. Hamming, R. W. (2020). The art of doing science and engineering: Learning to learn (pp.292). Stripe Press. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53349431-the-art-of-doing-science-and-engineering ↩