
…th these things are good. Your practitioner rattles through a new list of nonevents at every visit. You don’t understand most of it, but that’s okay. You aren’t really supposed to understand it until you need to understand it. You hold your breath until it’s clear that you don’t need to understand it, and then you stop listening. That’s how that works.
Why would someone who’s gone through the thousands of hours it takes to get good at coding say that coding is easy? Because they’re suffering from a cognitive bias called the curse of knowledge. They cannot remember what it was like to not know how to code. And even if they can, they’ve probably long forgotten how hard coding was for them at first.