When thinking about mastery, for myself, there seem to be two frames: How do I define what it means to strive for learning, for mastery? How well am I following that rubric / framework for any given essay? I think I need to figure out #1 first, or at least have some sense of it, in order to give it a whirl. But I also need to not be too prescriptive. Who knows what’ll happen when I write. ...
I’ve been thinking a lot about it, this idea, forgiveness. That might be all I have on it right now, which raises a meta question for the blog - is that enough to publish? To which I’d ask myself - what’s the point of the blog? Is it mostly for others? Or mostly for me? And then I’d of course realize, as I am, that the same question can be asked about forgiveness itself. ...
Reading more of her this morning and I don’t want to stop. There is a joy in her words, an aliveness, that is contagious. I feel as though she does not want to stop writing, and thus, perhaps, I don’t want to stop reading. The topics vary wildly from why armed forces wear uniforms to the paucity of ‘growth’ as the prevailing metaphor for our entire way of being and doing. No matter the details though, I want to keep reading. ...
I’m reading her book right now, No Time To Spare, and am filled with this familiar feeling of how it feels when you’re reading someone and just feel…seen. Understood, yes, but more than that, like your own way of understanding itself is being reflected back to you. Or, in other words, she’s just smart and I like how her brain moves ideas around, how it thinks and how she shares that thinking with the world. ...
just ask claude Here’s what’s actually changing: you think you can’t solve this stuff. And you probably can. And if you can’t, Claude can help. Or someone on the internet can help. The information is out there. The capability is out there. I’m not saying it’ll be easy. Some people have a stronger technical awareness. A depth to it. But that’s also where people like me can help. Because one of the traps of “just ask Claude” is that it’ll lead you in bad directions. ...