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While writing a particularly elegant piece of C# code (IMHO), I thought to blog about leveraging power of the delegate mechanism in the language. I thought it was more an article than a post. Ultimately, I thought it sounded like too much work.
I made "frumente" this morning. I've done it a couple times now and thought to post about it. That also sounds like work.
It seems, to me, far more entertaining and engaging to do the thing, than to write about doing the thing. Teaching people face to face is fun, but laying out a well designed article on a subject is serious grunt work. I think back on all the unwritten explanations of process that got pushed back in the doing of those process. Which got me wondering...
Do we ever get to hear from most accomplished in any field? Or, by nature of their devotion to their craft, are they too busy doing it to explain it? Are the great teachers of a subject ever the most learned on that subject?
As a side note, I've known people with very impressive knowledge and the completely inability to transfer that knowledge to other humans. Being able to really teach is not a trivial skill and more uncommon than a teachers union might have you believe. It's possible that the juxtaposition of the teaching skill and mastery of another skill just occurs very rarely?
I made "frumente" this morning. I've done it a couple times now and thought to post about it. That also sounds like work.
It seems, to me, far more entertaining and engaging to do the thing, than to write about doing the thing. Teaching people face to face is fun, but laying out a well designed article on a subject is serious grunt work. I think back on all the unwritten explanations of process that got pushed back in the doing of those process. Which got me wondering...
Do we ever get to hear from most accomplished in any field? Or, by nature of their devotion to their craft, are they too busy doing it to explain it? Are the great teachers of a subject ever the most learned on that subject?
As a side note, I've known people with very impressive knowledge and the completely inability to transfer that knowledge to other humans. Being able to really teach is not a trivial skill and more uncommon than a teachers union might have you believe. It's possible that the juxtaposition of the teaching skill and mastery of another skill just occurs very rarely?