Whale Speak » practice http://tamewhale.com/whalespeak Infrequent & Opinionated Web Farts Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:46:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The best way to learn http://tamewhale.com/whalespeak/2008/07/the-best-way-to-learn/ http://tamewhale.com/whalespeak/2008/07/the-best-way-to-learn/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:00:10 +0000 Gavin http://tamewhale.com/whalespeak/?p=40 The best way to learn is to do. When you learn from someone else, you can get a good overview, but the details are missing. Learning on the job provides a better sense of the “feel” of something. That intuitive touch that experts have.

When I first learned to cook, I measured out everything to the gram, but now I shun measurements and timing for almost everything. (I still can’t get the knack of baking.) What I’ve got now is not arrogance, but a set of internal guides or heuristics that have come into place without me really codifying them. I know how much is too much and how much is not enough.

It’s like that joke about the difference between theory and practice. In theory there’s no difference, in practice there is.

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