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by OrangeTux 3339 days ago
This post reminds me of Amir Rachum's post about Knowledge Debt[1].

"This is how programming should be taught. You should do stuff way before you can figure out how it works. For a while, you should intentionally be ignorant about distracting details."

"You should, intentionally and tactically, decide which piece of information you can do without, for now. But you should also, intentionally and strategically, decide when to pay back that debt."

[1]: http://amir.rachum.com/blog/2016/09/15/knowledge-debt/