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On Learning Through Presence

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Connecting the invisible dots

2025-11-30 On Learning Through Presence Connecting the invisible dots When you encounter someone's final work product, whether it is a blog post, a tweet, or code, the only legible thing is the polished result. The million inputs that go into the end result are invisible to the end user. The illegibility prevents you from seeing the countless intermediary drafts, weird quirks, and rituals that enabled the final work product to come to fruition. The illegible inputs are an amalgamation of a rich contextual history that is only learned offline, in person. Physical presence exposes the illegible

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