On: You Don't Need to Be Brilliant to Do Brilliant Work

[hprotagonist]

just start drinking from the firehose.

the trick is to convince yourself not to care about the immediate utility of what you’re learning. And store pointers to data, it’s lighter weight.

[anhedonic_igor → hprotagonist]

Could you give a concrete example of what you mean by storing pointers to data? Do you mean having trigger words or ideas that you use to rebuild complex ideas?

[bobblywobbles → hprotagonist]

Store pointers to data. Exactly how I try to remember things, it works very well.

[owyn → hprotagonist]

agree. read a lot. especially other people's source code.

[hprotagonist → owyn]

read a lot, and i'd say read more or less any and all competent texts you can find.