> Learning is an exercise in creating space in your mind to represent a new map of interrelated symbols.
That might be how you learn, which is a good thing to know, but the presentation of your personal understanding of yourself come off like “this is the way for all”, which gives me the yucks.
For me I need to re-formulate things in my own words (or my own code) until I understand which parts of a system I have blind spots on, then dig into those, then rinse and repeat.
If I can express it in simple language in a way that hangs together, and go into detail about complicated parts of the system, I’m getting somewhere.
The downside of learning a system of human invention fundamentally is that one invariably comes to understand that it is a Rube Goldberg machine that some yahoos figured out how to sell.