Posts tagged “learning”

The web stack is too vast and ever-changing for anyone to fully master. Instead of stressing about that, understand how standardization, packaging, and abstraction constantly reshape what developers actually need to know, pick your battles wisely, and embrace the fact that you'll never be bored.

A throwaway comment from my mother when I was eight has defined my entire life: "It's never cool to not know something." I'd been performing ignorance of cricket to seem cool. That mild rebuke turned me into the insatiable infovore I am today.

Took a left brain/right brain test and it nailed me: overly methodical, paralyzed by options, constantly trying to categorize everything. Apparently I'm best suited to be a scientist or design consultant. Now if only it told me how to actually fix these tendencies.

A prerequisite map for learning about computers, structured as an outward-flowing bubble diagram. Students progress from the center outward, completing each topic before unlocking the next. Essentially a mind-map of computer literacy, but surprisingly effective as a teaching tool.

I describe the five stages of computing expertise, from wide-eyed wonder at your first machine to intentionally pouring Coke into the disk drive. How accurate is it?