Justin Reidy

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@VegetablesReidy

CTO, No Diet Dietitian.
Board, Stern Center for Language & Learning.
Building Mathblast, math facts for my kids.
Ex-Webflow, Loom, Airbnb. Aspiring mensch.

BTV engineeringvirtues.substack.com Joined July 2007

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Justin Reidy @VegetablesReidy 16h

One of the key things we must do as educators is making "the push" doable and building a tolerance for effort.

The truth is that we can't make every student love every subject. But we CAN make effort habitual. And we can build an environment that reinforces the work.

Peps Verified account @PepsMccrea 6d

Left to ourselves, we avoid effort. But with some push, we can learn to want it:

On acquiring A Taste For Effort in life & school:

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Justin Reidy @VegetablesReidy 16h

Fable 5.2 was enough to put me back on Ultra from Max.

Well played, Claude, well played.

Justin Reidy @VegetablesReidy 3d

Periodic reminder that velocity is a vector.

Going faster in the wrong direction is worse than doing nothing.

Nan Yu Verified account @thenanyu 3d

Software got a lot easier if you know what you wanna build, and a lot harder if you don’t.

With clarity, you can straight-shot to the solution. Without it, you’ll ship a pile of junk and spend a lot of money doing it. Pre-AI era you would ship nothing, which is an improvement.
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Justin Reidy @VegetablesReidy 5d

After this week's blue wave, the conventional wisdom will be that educational reform is over.

But even as some changes will wither, a thousand flowers are about to bloom.

Parents know what their kids are missing now. They won't accept it, especially when the alternative to an engaged kid is cognitive surrender to AI.

With building easier than ever, the teachers (and parents!) who know what kids need can ship it themselves, straight to the families who are desperate for it.

Change is coming. One way or another.

Justin Reidy @VegetablesReidy 6d

In endurance training there's this idea of "junk miles" – going further just to increase a number. It's work without an outcome.

Learning, like training, needs to ask: What's the outcome? And is the stimulus right for that outcome? Otherwise it's just junk.

Justin Skycak Verified account @justinskycak 6d

There's a million ways to do active learning wrong.

The way to do it right is "deliberate practice": mindful repetition on performance tasks just beyond the edge of one's capabilities.

Deliberate practice is about making performance-improving adjustments on every single repetition.

Any individual adjustment is small and yields a small improvement in performance.

But when you compound these small changes over a massive number of action-feedback-adjustment cycles, you end up with massive changes and massive gains in performance.
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