Interesting point… having listened to the first as an audiobook, I tend to agree. I might change my mind after listening to the second, but, after listening to the first, I felt that it overemphasized us as a species and underemphasized environmental factors’ role in shaping us.
Here’s the key point, as I see it… if you can already do better, just do it; if not, then learn first and do it later!
In theory, one of the greatest benefits of school is dedicated time to gain skills; in practice, most of my students waste that time by not taking it sufficiently seriously (not that I was too far from that…
Absolutely true… it’s not that it can’t be done, but how many people have the kind of motivation it takes, especially if you’ve got any kind of barriers in the way? And, to whatever degree great ideas and great art never see the light of day, we as a society are that much the poorer.
I think this also applies to coding… maybe it’s just an old age thing, but I see value in refining things at present, while in the past, it was more important to me to capture the essence of that original experience. Long ago, drafts felt like watering down the experience. Now, I see a difference between distilling and watering down.
Same here- for me, the key is that my phone is used for communication and my iPad for information consumption/creation…. I do, however, realize that it is not that way for everyone!
