• I think that a key feeling I got after the end of the first class was - wow I have been coding for a long time! I do know so much! And, I have the ability to learn so much more.
  • It’s possible for me to make things and to learn on my own, if I view myself as my own personal adventurer in the quest of learning.
  • I can come up with a solution to any problem with a whiteboard and a marker and a schematic diagram. It might not be a perfect solution and I might need to do some research, but I can at least write down the questions I need answered and some assumptions I can safely make going forward.
    • As EY would say, sit five minutes with the problem.
    • This feels like something important to connect to, because again, a huge barrier for me to take on large challenges and learn programming is feeling daunted by my own non-knowledge.
  • I LOVED the education around getting comfortable and learning to love that feeling of “not-knowing.” Refactor that experience as sharp, deep curiosity. “I don’t know how this works. Isn’t that fascinating?”
  • I notice so many feelings coming up as I learn coding. As I learn more, some thoughts come up like “wow great I learned some javascript! now I’m like every other frontend engineer out there, i’m competing against them…”
    • This thought process and the associated feelings of frustration and inadequacy has literally prevented me from learning programming more rigorously.
    • It’s like I have a resistance to being “just” a nerd.
    • In reality this is a skill. The time will pass anyway. Ask myself if I really need to identify myself or my identity with the skill. It can perhaps be a really powerful tool for me to make the change I want to see in the world. Bring my visions to life.
  • Idea for project for this week - a collage version of my personal website. Call it the “illegible” version.
    • illegible.parthagrawal.com
    • or less-legible.parthagrawal.com