045: How We Learn

• Make impossible states impossible
• Teaching elm episode
• Dillon's first Elm project, Mobster pair/mob programming timer

Ideas for Effective Learning

• Have a playground to try out ideas
• Try a new tool or technique with a familiar problem or exercise
• Small scale exercises and real world projects
• Small scale exercises are helpful for quickly developing a skill
• Feedback loops
• Tiny steps shorten the feedback loop
• Use code katas like bowling, tennis, roman numeral katas
• Analogous to empirical scientific method (hypothesis, test, analyze)
• Call your shot
• Don't forget to analyze test results after
• Listen to smart people, but come to your own conclusions
• Try two alternate ways of doing something out for yourself
• Failure is part of learning
• Follow your curiosity
• Look at the source for projects you depend on or come across
• Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset
• You have to make knowledge your own (synthesis) - connect it to what you know
• Just in time vs. just in case learning - focus on what you need or seems important now
• Flexbox Froggy game
• Demystify things (for example custom type constructors vs type alias constructors)
• Mind mapping
• Elm Radio Opaque Types episode
• Zettlekasten second brain
• How to Take Smart Notes book
• Make declarative statements in second brain system
• Dillon's use the platform note from his digital garden
• Digital gardening
• Learn in public movement
• Richard Feldman's talk Scaling Elm Apps
• Richard experimenting with dream writer in a component architect
• Make It Stick book (and some notes summarizing key ideas)
• Elm Radio API Design Lessons episode
• Let your background processing do some work for you
• Dan Pink's book When
• Early bird vs night owl thinking
• Jeroen's blog