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grinding through concrete examples imbues you with intuition that you will not get if you jump directly to studying the most abstract ideas.

Advice on Upskilling

justinmath.com

34/ Masters of decision making don't predict the future; they prepare for the widest possible range of futures. Preparation is much less susceptible to error and far less dependent on luck than prediction.

Just Finished ‘Decision...

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[*Programming as Theory Building*](https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf): > At least with certain kinds of large programs, the continued adaptation, modification, and correction of errors in them, is essentially dependent on a certain kind of knowledge possessed by a group of programmers who are closely and continuously connected with them. > Programming should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.

Software Design Is Knowledge Building

Facundo Olano

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