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Well, I envy you, I guess.

I don't believe you learnt anything to any appreciable depth in 1.5 hours. I guess you learnt what's possible, but not much more. I get it, learning is learning and you got 1.5 hours' worth. Fair enough.

The bit I struggle with, though, is celebrating things being easy. I'm not excited by easy things. I like hard things. It's a bit like reading an account of how easy it was doing the Alpe d'Huez in a car. I'm more excited by people cycling up it because I know how difficult that is, or building the car. But driving it? Meh.

I do wonder if I'm descended from the people who built Stonehenge. I get restless if things are too easy. I need something hard, like erecting huge stones. But damn it's been nice being able to get that kind of satisfaction just sitting at a desk.

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Surely it matters that you can choose the things you want to be hard. Practicing guitar is hard, but I choose to do it, because I want to be better at that specific thing and the journey is the point. But not everything we do is like that. I don't want paying my bills to be hard.
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Those things you don't want to be hard are chores. Software wasn't a chore for me; I enjoyed it. I play guitar too, I'm really glad I have another hobby that isn't programming actually. I guess it would be like if I could get programmed like Neo in The Matrix, I say "I know guitar" and suddenly I'm Jimmy Page. I wouldn't bother. Anyone could do it so it would be pointless to play. That's how I feel about programming now.
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Yup, this is the same "learning" as passively watching a 3blue1brown video and thinking you've mastered Fourier transforms or something.
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No, it's more active than that.

It's closer to sitting in a lecture and actively asking questions, then discussing the material with others in the room (but still skipping the homework).

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