agency

• School is Not Enough - by Simon Sarris

  it [programming] has a low bar to entry and is something that parents still allow their children to “work at” do despite the hour-demands of systematized schooling. It is one of the few industries with an immensely permissionless culture

  The purpose of education is to develop agency within a child. Purposeful work and achieving mastery are tools to getting there. They aren’t the results of learning and imagination, it’s the other way around—learning is simply the consequence of doing.

• Jon-Kyle / Unschooling and Building with AI

  I’ve always been a generalist. Design was the gateway—making visual things. Making things interactive lead to a technical proficiency and learning how to program. This is now called “design engineering,” but the motivation was to do whatever necessary to see an idea through from conception to completion

  Not thinking along discipline, but intuitively doing what is needed to see a project through, is the direct result of my schooling experience

  There is a misconception that the primary affordance of AI is increasing velocity. Of speeding up arriving at an output. In a sense this is true, in the same way a pencil speeds up your ability to make a legible mark on paper. But it is also a remarkable learning tool. You can ask limitless numbers of questions to satisfy your curiosity without, well, driving it nuts

build

• Impact, agency, and taste | benkuhn.net
  • work backwards from the root goal, figure out a better way to accomplish things
  • be someone who is trusted to make something inevitable
  • good taste sign: "what does it seem like everyone else is mysteriously bad at?"
  • taste is also the "quality of your predictive models and search heuristics"
    • to improve, just try it
    • spend more thinking time on what to work on and on self-reflection
  • metacognition: reflect on your own (and your team's) work and thought processes, and figure out how to improve them.

create

• The Creative Process

  A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven

art

• 21 observations from people watching - by shani

  Polite has a mechanical quality to it, like carrying out all the right movements to replace batteries in a remote. Happy has a boundless quality: unpredictable, even when it is at a low level. There is an openness, allowing another person to surprise and delight them.