Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
“What is it you do to train that is comparable to a pianist practicing scales?” This is my fav Cowenism and I would like to hear from y’all on your answers to this (will reply with mine in a bit) https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/07/learn-like-an-athlete-knowledge-workers-should-train.html
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Backseats
@backseats
Related: warming up is severely underrated and overlooked
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
ooh how do you apply that outside of fitness?
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Backseats
@backseats
What can you do to pit your mind and body in a programming mindset or a design mindset, etc.? I’ll write some throwaway lines of code or start messing around in a figma just to get the juices flowing
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Backseats
@backseats
For me, it’s making a to do list, putting on some music, blocking distracting content, putting my phone away. If warming up is fundamentally about creating an environment to do work, then what’s the work before the work
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