{"id":40,"date":"2008-07-11T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-07-11T13:13:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T12:13:03","slug":"the-best-way-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/2008\/07\/the-best-way-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"The best way to learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;feel&#8221; of something. That intuitive touch that experts have.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t get the knack of baking.) What I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like that joke about the difference between theory and practice. In theory there&#8217;s no difference, in practice there is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;feel&#8221; of something. That intuitive touch that experts have. When I first learned to cook, I measured out everything to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8],"tags":[33,34,112,36,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}