Testing shouldn’t just finalize learning. It should be integrated from the start of learning.

Learning is hard for everyone. That’s why low-overhead learning is profound.

Low overhead learning is profound

Learning is often uncomfortable. If you’re learning something important, that means you’re learning somethging important that you didn’t know before. You should not fee bad about not knowing yesterday what you learned today. That mental hygene will help you keep learning in a positive light, but even in the most positivistic learners they will eventually discover something that they should have known before. Sometimes this is just the result of them accepting uneccessary blame, but other times it is just because learning can be uncomfortably slow.

Fast learning is a superpower, and fast learning requires low-cost learning.