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N220201: Beginner Mind Failures
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I was stunned to find how much I had failed to bring a beginner mind to tools narratives intended for beginners and novices. This folio is a cataloguing of those failings and remediations for them.
My commitment is to provide on-ramps and guard rails; I must bring execution on that to the forefront. The progression is irregular. At the same time, I am making and using nfoTools for my own software-development purposes.
The Beginner Mind Perspective
My beginner mind puts me in the place of someone who is seeing a presentation for the first time; it is unfamiliar to that mind. In that way, I can assess how much is missing or in the way and must be remedied, along with cues and links to deeper understanding. In particular, the beginner mind will unconceal tacit understanding that a newcomer will not have. Such repairs can also be helpful to those who have expertise but might not have noticed some aspect before.
I use beginner mind in auditing courses and materials that I am interested in recommending to others. In some cases, I will find a presentation too problematic to recommend without some caveats by way of hazard warnings.
The beginner mind is also valuable in attempting and reporting confirmable experiences. It is also valuable in assessing every issue or complaint as a contribution to eliciting the actual difficulty and improving a product and its support.
My Own Failures
Although I play “beginner mind” is assessing materials of others, I have been negligent in providing that attitude to materials I am providing. I rely on unsaid assumptions that are latent in my choice of examples and screen captures. This set of notes is intended to recognize and remedy those oversights.
Combination with Progressive Disclosure
I am also committed to providing progressive disclosure, a means by which the more-expert can assess what a topic is about and choose to drill down or not as they find useful. This is also intended to support those novices who return to review a topic more deeply.
This requires smooth balance and will probably require many adjustments of the work-in-progress nfoTools materials.
Mea Culpa
| ID | Started | Status | Topic |
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| N220201a | 2022-02-28 | 0.0.6 2022-06-15 | Not Your Desktop |
| N220201b | 2022-02-25 | 0.0.0 TBD | Not Your Start Menu |
| N220201c | 2022-02-25 | 0.0.0 TBD | Not Your All Programs |
| N220201d | 2022-02-25 | 0.0.0 TBD | Not Your File Explorer |
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