I resonate much with this perspective and appreciate how you articulate “sitting with inquiry” as a work and life stance. It seems more and more to me that our work requires openness to learning, making a bit of progress, then learning from our learning. We are changing with each new increment of learning, and that is worthy of celebration.
Dang, this clarifies my thinking exactly. The older I get the more I find to just trust my learning and allow my brain to process and know that it'll come. I need to be better about the Eureka moment and trying to teach and pass the knowledge forward. Something I've always respected about your writing Kent.
I’m going through what I’d call a big “question everything I knew” phase so this piece really resonated with me.
In the age of AI this and AI that, at-least for me, I feel like we’re defaulting to the hype and fear mindset. Staying true to what I know is becoming increasingly difficult when you read someone has made yet another “second brain”.
I’d be keen to understand what others are doing to keep themselves grounded and trust that their own experiences and knowledge are enough!
As you suggest, my test for understanding something new, is sharing. Explaining in my own words/pictures confirms my understanding and the repetition helps it become more permanent as a memory. It is a pattern i know works well for me.
Wow, yes. I know this fear you speak of. And irritability, oof. But then sometime between showering, sleeping, reflecting, and trying more things, perhaps for some more days, the answer finally comes.
Thank you. I remember reading an idea that mastering agility requires high level of self reflection and consiousness. There might be reason why some persons feel easier to accept uncertainty and to learn, but at software development it's simply poisonous to keep up facade of knowledgeable and wise when everything changes and no-one ever is about to know it all -- and still: it's not uncommon that loudest and most confident wins the battle / argument and the whole team / company is about to lose war / project.
I resonate much with this perspective and appreciate how you articulate “sitting with inquiry” as a work and life stance. It seems more and more to me that our work requires openness to learning, making a bit of progress, then learning from our learning. We are changing with each new increment of learning, and that is worthy of celebration.
Dang, this clarifies my thinking exactly. The older I get the more I find to just trust my learning and allow my brain to process and know that it'll come. I need to be better about the Eureka moment and trying to teach and pass the knowledge forward. Something I've always respected about your writing Kent.
I’m going through what I’d call a big “question everything I knew” phase so this piece really resonated with me.
In the age of AI this and AI that, at-least for me, I feel like we’re defaulting to the hype and fear mindset. Staying true to what I know is becoming increasingly difficult when you read someone has made yet another “second brain”.
I’d be keen to understand what others are doing to keep themselves grounded and trust that their own experiences and knowledge are enough!
As you suggest, my test for understanding something new, is sharing. Explaining in my own words/pictures confirms my understanding and the repetition helps it become more permanent as a memory. It is a pattern i know works well for me.
B6700? Suddenly I want a stack. And some cande.
Wow, yes. I know this fear you speak of. And irritability, oof. But then sometime between showering, sleeping, reflecting, and trying more things, perhaps for some more days, the answer finally comes.
Thank you. I remember reading an idea that mastering agility requires high level of self reflection and consiousness. There might be reason why some persons feel easier to accept uncertainty and to learn, but at software development it's simply poisonous to keep up facade of knowledgeable and wise when everything changes and no-one ever is about to know it all -- and still: it's not uncommon that loudest and most confident wins the battle / argument and the whole team / company is about to lose war / project.