Monday, February 23, 2015

Oh my

My roommate really likes this comic.



My roommate does not like this comic.

This comic is about how when you have an idea, or an insight, or inspiration---the information that you get in that moment is so much greater and happens so much faster than your ability to describe it in words.

And it was going to be about how the reason for that is that "new" information is actually new connections between the massive amounts of information you already have. Like everything you know about gators and everything you know about babies being connected and each of those things makes you completely reevaluate the other. That's what cool learning is.


The first comic was supposed to be a bad example of learning. Where there's new information but it doesn't really tap into information you already have. You don't rethink anything you already know.
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But all of that feels like it sucked the joy completely out of a guy punching himself in the face. 

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