Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is t… - Erik Naggum

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Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken to the raw observations that you have accumulated instead of relying on the conclusions you have reached from the exogenous premises absorbed through teaching and bookish learning.

Erik Naggum

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Erik Naggum (June 13, 1965 – June 17, 2009) was a Lisp programmer.

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Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken to the raw observations that you ha… - Erik Naggum

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