Learning has always been to write things down. Just reading it seldom sticks.

RealityVoid 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Absolutely not. Learning has been to experiment with the things until you form a effective mental model of the thing. Writing things does ab-so-luetely nothing except make you feel good in the moment. Just like listening to a lecture without engaging with the subject matter deeper.

Writing things down is important for organisational persistence of information but that is something else.

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direwolf20 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Writing is better than reading, but doing is better than writing.

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shimman 2 hours ago | parent [-]

How does this apply to coding when the act of writing IS doing? Or do you mean like coding "on your own" versus following a tutorial for example?

	▲	coldtea an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Means writing code (doing) vs writing documentation / plans / project architecture documents and so on.
	▲	direwolf20 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Writing code is doing

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0wis 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not sure humanity learned nothing before the last 8000 years. It was just very slow. Maybe we will need new ways to learn