This inspired me to start brainstorming a book designed for more logically-minded and less emotionally-conscious people on how to communicate with those who are the other way around. I may at some point try to pick the brains of folks here about that.
I look forward to that! You may want to know that a lot of those communication methodology issues have been talked about (though certainly not exhaustively) in the “Craft and Community” sequence.
It went a long way towards getting me out of a frustrated “oh-god-this-is-hard-and-there-is-so-much-more-to-learn” funk.
Well done! I’m still in that funk with my mando, alas.
I think this is an area where linking to HP:MoR with the text of the link being the term looked for helps Google properly categorize it. Of course, Google mostly ignores forum threads, so the link above probably won’t help much.
No worries. I’ve had fair warning about the frequency of specialized communication in here; I was mostly just amused by that particular one’s unsearchability (as opposed to, say, “akrasia,” which I just asked Wikipedia about the first time I encountered it).
in the “Craft and Community” sequence
Thanks; I’m eyeing the sequence list in another tab but hadn’t gotten that far yet. I’m a huge communication and language nerd (albeit one wholly without technical qualifications), so that and the word definition stuff jump out at me, aside from the core. However, the fact that it’s nearly 1:30am also jumps out at me. (Speaking of akrasia.) (I did just go through the gentle intro to Bayesian Theory, although after getting the initial problem correct, I admit I skimmed some of the explanation. I don’t have a good intuition for what the right answers are, but I have a good intuition for when not to trust my intuition about what they are, and then I can work the math out at my leisure.)
I’m still in that funk with my mando
Good luck! Two things it has helped me to remember when working on the guitar come from my mental file of good-advice-I-heard-somewhere, both paraphrased:
1) “Getting better at things is a skill which, like any other skill, improves with practice.” (I got this from a documentary whose name I don’t recall, about a fellow trying for the world record in Missile Command. It encourages me because my last big learning project went well, so maybe I’m getting better at getting better at things!)
2) “You’re going to lose your first hundred games; may as well get them over with.” (From a Go player. Generalizable to: “When you’re new to something, you’re going to suck at it. Do it loud, do it proud, and most importantly do it often, and soon the necessary period of sucking at it will be over.”)
Sorry! HP:MoR = Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, a fanfic by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
I look forward to that! You may want to know that a lot of those communication methodology issues have been talked about (though certainly not exhaustively) in the “Craft and Community” sequence.
Well done! I’m still in that funk with my mando, alas.
I think this is an area where linking to HP:MoR with the text of the link being the term looked for helps Google properly categorize it. Of course, Google mostly ignores forum threads, so the link above probably won’t help much.
No worries. I’ve had fair warning about the frequency of specialized communication in here; I was mostly just amused by that particular one’s unsearchability (as opposed to, say, “akrasia,” which I just asked Wikipedia about the first time I encountered it).
Thanks; I’m eyeing the sequence list in another tab but hadn’t gotten that far yet. I’m a huge communication and language nerd (albeit one wholly without technical qualifications), so that and the word definition stuff jump out at me, aside from the core. However, the fact that it’s nearly 1:30am also jumps out at me. (Speaking of akrasia.) (I did just go through the gentle intro to Bayesian Theory, although after getting the initial problem correct, I admit I skimmed some of the explanation. I don’t have a good intuition for what the right answers are, but I have a good intuition for when not to trust my intuition about what they are, and then I can work the math out at my leisure.)
Good luck! Two things it has helped me to remember when working on the guitar come from my mental file of good-advice-I-heard-somewhere, both paraphrased:
1) “Getting better at things is a skill which, like any other skill, improves with practice.” (I got this from a documentary whose name I don’t recall, about a fellow trying for the world record in Missile Command. It encourages me because my last big learning project went well, so maybe I’m getting better at getting better at things!)
2) “You’re going to lose your first hundred games; may as well get them over with.” (From a Go player. Generalizable to: “When you’re new to something, you’re going to suck at it. Do it loud, do it proud, and most importantly do it often, and soon the necessary period of sucking at it will be over.”)