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June 23, 2024

Et au milieu coule une river (pour le moment) #5 - Warrior du Dimanche

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Overthinking Overthinking - by David R. MacIver

To think or analyze too much.

So people will disagree about what is overthinking, because too much is relative.

One issue is in decision making: overthinking without taking a decision (known as analysis paralysis).

From the point of view of the end result, the research process looks like overthinking: You put far more effort into the problem than the eventual solution seems to warrant, but this is only obvious in retrospect.

How to Explain Anything to Anyone | David R. MacIver

Don't assume people know things. Know exactly what you want to share and search what they know.

Begin by explicitly deciding what you want people to get out of your explanation. Try to keep this as small as possible.
Begin all explanations either by asking what they already understand or by considering a model recipient of the explanation.
Think explicitly in terms of the abstraction stack between your end goal and where the recipient is now.

There’s nothing in the above for helping people unlearn prior flawed understanding, cognitive difficulties or motivation to understand and learn.