Elm Radio

045: How We Learn

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  • 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
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