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Re:Glamorous Toolkit by chris_st on Monday April 07, 2025 @11:13AM (#43612452)
Some time, take someone who's interested in GT, and sit them down in front of the system and capture video of them using it. And don't tell them a thing. Just watch them interact with the system. See how long it takes them to get stuck in some particular way, or get the UI into some weird state they don't understand. Bring them back, tell them one thing to get them going, and then shut up entirely again and see how far they get.

It's just so incredibly hard to remember that "beginner mind", that you really have to see it in action to understand just how much is in your brain, that you don't even realize.

That exercise will probably help your book more than anything.

Re:Glamorous Toolkit by tangentstorm on Monday April 07, 2025 @11:49AM (#43612805)
He has done this many times on his YouTube channel!

For an example, this guest was particularly clever and charming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJP2zkl_44o

J/k. It's me. I'm the guest. :)

BUT: this was our talk after he saw my livestream where I was stumbling around trying to do things in GT early on, so it might help other people.

Re:Glamorous Toolkit by tudorgirba on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @03:03AM (#43619077)
I remember that guest! :)
Re:Glamorous Toolkit by tudorgirba on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @03:02AM (#43619073)
Thank you for the suggestion. We are indeed doing that both publicly and privately. We do learn a lot from this.

I very much agree that it is hard to remember the beginner's mind. I also find that a larger challenge is that there isn't a single beginner's mind, but many. When the space is large and there are many paths, people can come from different directions. Finding commonalities seems to be significantly more difficult in that situation.

But this still leaves the problem of how to explain it before people work with the environment. The conversations in posts like these are very helpful, for example. I'd be interested in other suggestions that could help with that.