TIL, 2018-02-07

Musings

Flocking rules for refactoring. Better to do tiny changes (if possible, 1 line) and test rather than doing a lot of changes and then testing (rehacktoring).
Think of concepts that make sense. In Bottles, those were “quantity”, “pronoun”, “action”.
When you make a new abstraction, apply it everywhere to the code.

You practice things so you don’t have to think about it. Your mind actually does automating things already.
Reality is not subjective.
Bad publicity is better than no publicity because people, when recalling things, sometimes think it’s true even if it’s not. (Illusion of truth).
Consciousness is the long-term planner. But when you automatize something, it becomes second nature.
Your body has a gut feel because it has other nervous system components. So try to follow your hunches. Like, that’s why you can flip a coin if you are torn between 2 decisions. If you want something before the coin lands, then take it.
Your brain literally becomes quieter once you’ve burned down a game in your brain.
Babies are not blank slates. They have things like reasoning, physical causality, numbers, etc to make them survive.
Our brains are slow at conditional logic but strong at social logic.