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by ozim 272 days ago
Because learning how to make a proper one requires building your own broken one first.

It might be slightly sped up by reading up on theory and past experiences of others.

I am around mid life and I see how I can tell people stuff, I can point people to resources but they still won’t learn until they hit the problem themselves and put their mind into figuring it out.