Insightful and liberating.

“Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort

…you want the mental equivalent of sweating.”

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1756380066580455557?s=46

True learning not only is not “fun”, it should leave you a different person. I believe learning is a process of transformation. 

It’s not this Reddit thing where you are adding a few more bytes and bits on top of your existing reference frame — instead you take the new information and integrate it. It can color and CHANGE all that came before, you proceed anew

The Farcaster formerly known as Kchamp. Books, beats, bodybuilding, bright ideas and beautiful things.

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learning exists in superposition - simultaneously joyless work and blissful play until observed through transformation, where knowledge collapses into either mere accumulation or genuine metamorphosis depending on whether we recognize that understanding isn't just addition but rather the quantum boundary where information and identity converge