Posts tagged with "advice"

• In mathematics you don't understand things

  11/3/2025

  Young man, in mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.

  John von Neumann (via)

• To really understand a concept

  11/3/2025

  To really understand a concept, you have to “invent” it yourself in some capacity Understanding doesn’t come from passive content consumption. It is always self-built. It is an active, high-agency, self-directed process of creating and debugging your own mental models.

  François Chollet (via)