tbh this kind of stuff makes me strangely optimistic (though in a vaguely dark way) about software dev careers in the sense that the temptation to not actually learn stuff seems overwhelming and might have downstream effects on the candidate pool in like five years
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i know it’s frowned upon to learn kanji without pronunciations but how bad is it really (at first)? i know they don’t map 1:1 to english words but im not an english native speaker anyway so its not like im going to take them super literally. (and i don’t mind some ambiguity or compound nonsense)
how something was invented is entertaining but not necessarily educational. i like to teach a fictional account of inventions where the inventor is you, the reader. good inventions have infinite pathways leading to them, and some are simpler than others. a case of fiction being truer than history
the thing about this that took me a while to come to grips with is that i just have a particular way of writing and i might as well do that because i don’t want to do something else. i know some people find it annoying but hopefully it’ll feel less “official” with me being somewhat at distance
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