Daily Dose of Curious

Competence is a few thousand small mistakes, arranged in a useful order.

15 SEP 2026LEARNING

It arrives looking like instinct, which is unhelpful for anybody watching, because the mistakes are invisible by then. Nobody gets the shortcut. The good news is that the mistakes count even when they are embarrassing.

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