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Co-founder of Windsor.io here. Just want to share that I've had such a blast these last 5 years building Windsor with with my college roommate - Andrew. It's been the most exhilarating journey of my life and career to date. Joining Front is the next big milestone for our work in AI.

Andrew and I have a lot more to share soon on what we're building at Front - stay tuned!

Here's a clickable link: https://windsor.io

I didn't realise links in the post wouldn't be clickable

I use Brave, which comes with amazing defaults to block ads and trackers. But even Brave seems to have DNT turned off by default.

I have it turned off. I suspect having DNT turned on would actually help with fingerprinting (like you said, only 10% of people have it on, so it's easy to narrow you down).

This is great! I read this immediately after writing and sharing a blog post on HN

Definitely, I listed a few examples of great resources to make a point on the article. Another resource that seems like it might be great that I'm currently reading is Julian Shapiro's growth marketing guide - https://www.julian.com/guide/growth/intro

It is long form text, which is an automatic -1 for me, and I dismissed this for a while, but over time it's seemed to come out as one of those "great" resources in a different domain that I muse read. After starting, I noticed

1. It reads more like vimtutor than an article; i.e. you pick your own adventure, which I can bite

2. Many people I look up to as experts have directly recommended this to me

3. It's relevant to me now - I'm working on a startup

I still dismissed the guide for a long time and wasn't convinced it was the best resource out there - but it's starting to seem like it's atleast a local maxima for me.

I hope that made sense into how I think about resources when learning. I don't yet have a coherent system in place to determine how valuable a resource is to me. I usually only know months or years later

I love #4 and is something I do all the time but never thought about it till reading your comment!

OP here, I haven't actually, but just looked it up and it looks like it talks more about test prep than the type of learning I talk about. Most of my coding skills come from self-learning things online the way I talked about it, at my own pace, without exams to reinforce that.

However, for test prep, through school and college I have read and tried a lot of guides on learning including simple index cards, the Leitner System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system), coming up with mnemonics, transcribing content from a source medium to some other medium, the Feynman technique, etc.

What I learnt about myself was that any technique involving writing didn't work for me. I would never go back to read something I wrote. I hated writing. I often walked into lectures without a notebook and just listened instead. Don't memorize. Listen. Understand. I have friends who were brilliant "test takers" - which to me meant they could quickly memorize a lot just before an exam. That's something I'm bad at, so I took tests primarily based on what I'd understood over lectures, or follow up discussions I had with professors or classmates.

This also means I wouldn't practice math questions or work out physics problems before a test - I'd sorta just read over solved problems and make sure I understood them.

In retrospect, I actually think this isn't a great way to study for an exam and I always got very nervous just before a test because I feel grossly underprepared, but I saw passing them as a formality and usually just worked on other things I found fun (for instance, I built CSS Peek during finals week of sophomore year).

Bingo! I am an author with very limited experience and this was an exercise in growing and solidifying my own ideas. To that end, I chose to write about an underdeveloped idea and share it with the world. If you look me up, you'll find a string of unfinished and incomplete projects and ideas. I'm usually not scared about sharing underdeveloped ideas prematurely - I think it helps me grow (I wouldn't have gotten as much feedback on this post if I never shared it)

green?

OP here, great point civicsquid. I got that feedback a lot from people (i.e. spending too much time on the post trying to establish credentials) and that I overdid it.

The point of this post for me is start trying to write (I think I'm pretty bad at it) so I'm extremely thankful for the feedback and glad you found the content itself academic and intriguing. :)

OP here

I'm sorry you feel that way :(

> idiosyncrasies of their code

I've only had about 6 months of processional work experience, 3 months of which have been open source code, so even just learning _their_ code had a huge learning impact on me because I saw it as "wow, this is how code works in production". I think I learnt less about code itself though honestly, and instead learnt the systems and how those people thought about things. A lot of my code reviews on other people's PRs were "Could you explain to me why you did things this way" since I was just learning.

I don't know where I'm going with this. I'm less than a year out of uni and am still learning new things every week. Taking a year off doesn't sound like a terrible idea - though I know I personally couldn't motivate myself and would end up just playing DotA the whole day ️

I'd love to keep chatting if you'd like and talk about it and how we could learn stuff. Wanna DM me?

I love this. Yup, it's something I've completely left out, but that was (partially) intentional. I wish I did a better job explaining this, but yes - the technique I talk about won't let you master anything, but will let you scratch the surface on a lot of things really fast. There are things I want to master, but there are too many things out there that fit that bill for me and I still haven't found something I'm able to spend the amount of time you've put into 3D modeling without getting distracted.

I hope to write a follow up post to this when my own thoughts on this topic are more clear.

Great point! I've been called out for aggressively soliciting help

Author here

>I’m game to explain it over coffee to the author

I'm game. You make some great points and I feel like I could learn a lot from you. DM me :)

Experts usually know some great resources, but are often themselves your best resource if you have access to one. I definitely forgot to mention them, the people I worked with at Facebook and ZEIT are on that list.

But when I wasn't working somewhere, I had to find my own resources and trust my own instincts. I didn't know who the best teachers were, so I had to decide for myself, what the best resource for me would be. Often, I got it wrong, but I got better and finding the diamonds in the rough.

I love telling this story, but that wasn't the point of the post

SME?

Most probably because I haven't been able to setup HTTPS yet. I just moved my site to svbtle today (https://svbtle.com) and I'm still waiting for them to help with that