10k hours doing what? And why would we expect to see an approximately equal amount of time to achieve expertise across so many different human endeavors?
Veritasium has a really good video on the subject [0], with a much more compelling explanation for what it takes to develop expertise. He comes up with 4 things, but the two that stood out the most to me are that the field needs to be deterministic—the more randomness is involved the less expertise is possible—and that the learner needs consistent and accurate feedback on what they get right and wrong. Absent those factors no number of hours will do you any good.
Pearson is a US education company. This is a lucky group who gets to spend time building amazing interactions used in classrooms across the US.
Some examples:
Equation Editors
Graphing calculators
AI Scored Audio Responses
Toughen up, right? That’s the message subtext here.
As someone who has been diagnosed with Celiac and who has a Celiac child I find this dismissive additude OFFENSIVE.
I don’t know anything about Russian or Asian Celiac rates of occurance, but I bet they aren’t that much different than the US. The only difference being awareness and diagnosis.
If dynamic refactoring so easy they were doing it 30 years ago, but one of the best IDE makers in the world can't generalize it for the masses today, doesn't that tell you something?
Well, in the sense that we have to have money to survive generally, so we all have to take jobs that pay money, then yes, we are all chasing money. But that doesn't mean we all make the amount of money the PRIMARY determination on where we work and how we spend our time.
Many of us would take a lower paying job if it meant more interesting work, or a better work environment or location, or better long term stability.
