Tech — Work — Ramblings

by Mike Kalvas

202308271108 Construct hooks for future knowledge

Fortune favors the prepared mind1

202109060835 Knowledge is constructed through effort. Some of that effort can be prepared ahead of time by collecting information widely (202308141518 Be a pack rat for little facts) and turning it over in our mind.2

Not only does this make learning new things easier in general, but it also builds our repertoire of analogies (202304031221 Breadth of knowledge fuels analogy). In this way it’s valuable in and of itself. The output of using this method is greater than the sum of the pieces of knowledge learned.

  1. Thomas, D., & Hunt, A. (2019). The pragmatic programmer, 20th anniversary edition: Journey to mastery (Second edition) (pp. 255). Addison-Wesley. ↩

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