Very nice piece, timely and needed. Indeed, let's hope people stick to those principles.

There's a path to get people (children included) to get into technology with enough of the veneer of convenience to make sure it is a learning experience... While keeping it pleasurable.

The responsibilities drop on people before they're ready for it (I see it first hand regularly at customers). Such tips are thus welcome and helpful during the transition.

We collectively should reach out more to blog authors indeed. Not for kudos but to feed each other through conversations. That's how we collectively learn and improve.

This feels a bit too realistic for my taste... and yet... Well this piece of satire is well crafted I'd say.

Excellent piece, it show quite well the problem of skipping the "grunt work". Without it you can't really learn your trade (be it astrophysics or anything else). It also shows how the incentives on scientific careers are wrong. It's not new, but when LLM agents become available, things are definitely changing for the worst.

Indeed it's not simply books vs screens. It's about design and how our attention gets fractured (on purpose). We need to recognise there are many ways to learn and to produce ideas, then design for it. We'd be better off as a civilisation rather than the current attention economy.

Good point, it is old but portable and carries the important concepts. This is a good teaching vehicle. Even though it's unlikely you'd use it in the wild much longer.

There's a lot of this. Learning different languages to get out of your habits definitely brings compound benefits.

Indeed, the terminology has been greatly confused. I think I'll die on this particular hill though. I think it's important to name things properly. That said the trick of going through a verb might just work?

Functional programming is made scary due to its jargon. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Looks like a nice resource to get started with graphics and 3D.

I definitely agree with this. It's all about the grunt work and attention to details. This it's easier to be good at something when you become obsessed.

Some areas of our industry are more prone to the "fashion of the day" madness than others. Still there's indeed some potential decay in what we learn, what matters is finding and focusing on what will last.

An old one and a bit all over the place. Still, plenty of interesting advice and insights.

Or why it's important to mentor others and not stay in your own bubble.

If there's one area where people should stay clear from LLMs, it's definitely when they want to learn a topic. That's one more study showing the knowledge you retain from LLMs briefs is shallower. The friction and the struggle to get to the information is a feature, our brain needs it to remember properly.

Looks heavy on the NVidia specifics but it looks like a very comprehensive view of the important concepts in a GPU.

Long but nice post about all the things you need to figure out about working with databases when the only thing you know is imperative languages.

The title is a bit misleading in a way (and I almost didn't click through for a start). That said, it is an interesting essay dealing with the topics of intelligence, problem solving etc. I'm not sure I agree with everything in it, but that's still good food for thought.