Post #2165743
2026-01-18 19:44 UTC
@mweiss @nedbat @julian
Ah, but when you enter "teacher's mind", the person you're talking to/instructing is *part* of the system, and your goal is to alter their relationship with the subject, increasing either their understanding or enjoyment of it, usually by *you* gaining an understanding of their understanding, and then finding ways for them to change it.
It's a different, perhaps "meta", system, but also fascinating (at least to me).
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@mweiss@infosec.exchange 2026-01-18 19:49
@jztusk @nedbat @julian that's when I'm in "teacher mode". But in conversation, sometimes I get into that other mode because I'm sharing, not teaching.
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@julian@fietkau.social 2026-01-18 19:58
@jztusk Here's a visualization from one of my “Introduction to human-computer interaction” slides (riffing on Figure 1 from https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/2594128) where I try to convey that programming involves not only anticipating and steering the computer's internal state, but also designing it so that it works reliably and predictably for future users and their (less detailed than yours) mental model of the computer's behavior. A related notion, I feel. @mweiss @nedbat