Experientia docet
If you believe you must first learn how others do a thing before attempting it yourself, you will eventually discover that those others learned by doing first. Their methods worked because they were fitted to their temperament, circumstances, incentives, and support structures. Once abstracted from those conditions, the method no longer transfers. What you call “learning” was delay. You would have learned more, faster, by beginning directly and allowing reality to correct you. Experience has no substitute because it cannot be borrowed.
Brunswick
npub1c8…q6lkc
2026-01-15 22:22:13 UTC
Author Public Key
npub1c856kwjk524kef97hazw5e9jlkjq4333r6yxh2rtgefpd894ddpsmq6lkcPublished at
2026-01-15 22:22:13 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "6cb5b825499f8159385c65762c6ac5daa00fbdfcb656173d6799a871c6502bfe",
"pubkey": "c1e9ab3a56a2ab6ca4bebf44ea64b2fda40ac6311e886ba86b4652169cb56b43",
"created_at": 1768515733,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"alt",
"A short note: Experientia docet\n\nIf you believe you must first l..."
]
],
"content": "Experientia docet\n\nIf you believe you must first learn how others do a thing before attempting it yourself, you will eventually discover that those others learned by doing first. Their methods worked because they were fitted to their temperament, circumstances, incentives, and support structures. Once abstracted from those conditions, the method no longer transfers. What you call “learning” was delay. You would have learned more, faster, by beginning directly and allowing reality to correct you. Experience has no substitute because it cannot be borrowed.",
"sig": "a354472d70502024edbaf879f21e00521f9d89cc43e487a5ce463350a08d6b5d2af0a6c16a5660b34e5ff1957cd03845330d2f1ecabbaa68f900bda7f02f703b"
}