Jonathan Blow on compounding skill in programming
- YT :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bcpktyy-Eo
- Original title :: Jonathan Blow on getting better at programming through compounding
A 42-second clip of Jonathan Blow (original: https://youtu.be/5xgeZ16HpH0) on programming skill as compound interest.
His standing advice to programmers: do a lot of programming, make sure your tools are good, and do not put yourself in a life or work situation that prevents working effectively. The more programming you do, the better you get; being better means you learn faster and accomplish new things faster, which lets you learn even faster. It is a feedback loop - familiar from game design - and behaves like compound interest, so anything that blocks steady, effective practice costs far more than it appears to.