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I’m constantly amazed at how differently I learned to do things from my father than from school.

My father had all sorts of approaches similar to this, and it’s how I learned to write essays (outside-in) and research (inside-out), and which I later applied to programming. It made school trivial and fun, and it’s what I’m teaching my kids.




Sounds interesting. Can you provide some more examples?


Delaney - I second this. Can you write a book on this? Blog posts. Podcasts? I’d read/listen to them all.


I think the book is "How to Solve It" by Polya, I mean it. The skills are transferable.




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