Daniel Ginsburg
@dginsburg
Daniel Ginsburg
Learning is downstream of doing. The order should rarely be reversed. Most real knowledge, knowledge worth attaining, lives in the hands . It must be cultivated gradually, like a garden. Really, it must be grown. Most real knowledge is the result of doing something deliberately for a long time and steadily making small improvements. It requires a... See more
Do what you can't
DAN KOE
4d
future/proof
How to master any skill fast:
- Stop studying
- Outline a project
- Start building it
- Hit a roadblock
- Research how to overcome it
- Repeat until completed
Most people get trapped in tutorial hell and have nothing to show for years of "learning."
4d
future/proof
How to master any skill fast:
- Stop studying
- Outline a project
- Start building it
- Hit a roadblock
- Research how to overcome it
- Repeat until completed
Most people get trapped in tutorial hell and have nothing to show for years of "learning."
DAN KOE • DAN KOE (@thedankoe)
The best way to learn is the opposite of what we're taught.
You don't learn everything, then start. You start, then learn why it did or didn't work. You start with minimum viable knowledge, then experiment, then succeed or fail, then study to understand why.
People dumber than you tend to... See more
DAN KOEsubstack.com“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn’t understand it, but over time I came to realize it was perfect. Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual’s consciousness is a collection of memories we’ve
... See moreIn thoughtful disagreement, your goal is not to convince the other party that you are right—it is to find out which view is true and decide what to do about it. In thoughtful disagreement, both parties are motivated by the genuine fear of missing important perspectives. Exchanges in which you really see what the other person is seeing and they... See more
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Galen Strawson, who claimed to have no sense of himself as a continuously evolving being—a creature whose self consisted of a coherent story about accumulating memories and distinctive traits. Strawson was, for that reason, uninterested in his past. He acknowledged that his life had shaped him, but he believed that whether or not he consciously... See more