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there's an epidemic of fake learning. duolingo, tiktok, youtube. it's all entertainment cleverly disguised as education. real learning is hard. it's uncomfortable. if it feels 'fun', you probably aren't learning anything.
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It’s obviously a funny quote, but I kind of get where Da Vinci was coming from. He was brilliant enough to master like 10 different disciplines. If you’re THAT capable, maybe you look at an impact like the one Da Vinci had during his life and find it to be a failure. I mean, today we remember Da Vinci primarily because of (1) the Mona Lisa and (2) the inventions in his notebooks, but you have to remember that his notebooks weren’t published until after his death, and the Mona Lisa wasn’t nearly as renowned as it is now until after it was stolen from the Louvre in 1911. He spent a lot of his life designing weapons that were never built for a Duke who was overthrown. Da Vinci’s fame as the ultimate Renaissance man is largely a posthumous phenomenon.
Just found this person took my painting and ran it through AI to use it as a thumbnail. I understand free will and the fact that putting my art online comes with risks, but still this isn’t cool… ask! If they would’ve asked me id gladly let them use my painting… very sad to see
'E.g.' comes from the Latin 'exempli gratia,' which means "for example."
Also, 'i.e.' comes from the Latin 'id est,' which means "that is."
Way to remember
e.g. = example given
i.e. = in essence
a mistake that cost me 5 years: thinking preparation was progress. reading every book. taking every course. planning every detail. meanwhile, someone dumber than me started badly and figured it out. preparation feels productive but it's often just fear dressed up as strategy. you learn to swim by getting in the water, not by studying water.