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This is written by someone who has never had to convince people to do what they know they should be doing.

Diet and exercise (i.e., what to do) are solved problems. The hard part is convincing people to change their behavior (i.e., how to get people to do it). The medical profession is constantly searching for better ways of doing this (e.g., motivational interviewing).

And while you work on changing their habits, the disease process is still causing them harm and if there exists a medication that can mitigate that harm that a patient is more likely to take, the risk:reward ratio often leads to a clear recommendation.


Not with learning programming.

You can simply self-teach.

A bootcamp isn't a CS degree.


These are the estimates for how long it takes to reach the FSI "Speaking 3: General Proficiency in Speaking (S3)" and "Reading 3: General Professional Proficiency in Reading (R3)", which I understand to mean roughly B2 in the CEFR scale.

Because there's a broader range of things you can make, and the web is the largest source of inspiration so takes up the lion's share of projects contemporary students produce.

Sports are a means of attracting alumni dollars and/or accepting otherwise mediocre students who couldn't get in on merit, but have wealthy parents.

Yes the Fields is much more similar to the MacArthur Genius Grants.

The Abel is much more similar to the Nobel, though both the Abel and Fields are Nobel-caliber in prestige.


There's a book, too!

Recently came out as a second edition.


Sipser is the canonical text for undergraduates.

Highly recommend the recent book How to Raise a Healthy Gamer: End Power Struggles, Break Bad Screen Habits, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids [0].

It goes over many of the issues adjacent to social media usage and how to resolve them, starting with how to understand them.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-Healthy-Gamer-Relationship/...


I can't tell if this comment is satire.

In case it isn't, you're spending all your time on screens and not being present with your kids.

You're parenting by example that screen time is more important than family time.

Why would they listen to you when, to them, it probably seems like you're telling them to do what you won't?


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