‘We're always rationally explaining and articulating things. But we're at our most intelligent in the moment just before we start to explain or articulate. Great art occurs—or doesn't—in that instant. What we turn to art for is precisely this moment, when we “know” something (we feel it) but can't articulate it because it's too complex and multiple.’
A lesson many projects, including Clojure core, would be wise to internalize:
“Another thing we didn't get right up front was the documentation. We wrote a lot of it, and thought we did a good job, but […]The key missing piece was examples of even the simplest functions. We thought that all you needed to do was say what something did; it took us too long to accept that showing how to use it was even more valuable.”
A lesson many projects, including Clojure core, would be wise to internalize:
“Another thing we didn't get right up front was the documentation. We wrote a lot of it, and thought we did a good job, but […]The key missing piece was examples of even the simplest functions. We thought that all you needed to do was say what something did; it took us too long to accept that showing how to use it was even more valuable.”
@jack I am coming around to this, the trend line in particular. I'm still doing body weight stuff so far, but I seem to be sticking with it. So I have a few years to get into weights 🙂
It's easier now to stick with it than when I was younger, because I see the results in increased capability much more quickly, usually the same day. And I also see the effects of missing 2 days in a row.
In September, a bunch of us took a 3-day train ride from Seattle to St Louis for the last edition of Strange Loop. This video documents that journey, which we called the Trainjam.
TIL when Peano wrote the 1890s textbook that established much of modern mathematical notation, he did the first few editions in French and the 5th in Latino sine flexione — a simplified Latin of his own creation!
@jack Interesting! If we could also drop gender and declension that'd be handy heh... it's also kinda neat that reading the "language examples" of the Wikipedia page isn't that tough!