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‘Say Hello’ was inspired by optimism. – Nancy Wilson
When you start learning a new programming language the first thing you do is get it to say “Hello World!”
If you learn Go it now teaches you do to that in Chinese.
The intention of this instruction is that you get on and do something, something very simple, like printing a line to the output.
But you do it.
There are many people who never take this step.
They observe and analyse and read and try to understand.
They do this with AI – it’s something people talk about and they’re watching it.
They do it with markets – someone is talking about trading in a certain way.
Here’s the problem.
Life is so complex these days that it’s almost impossible to understand something from the outside.
At the same time it’s simpler than ever to actually understand things.
And this leads to a situation where people don’t know enough to know that they don’t know something.
So they make decisions believing that they know what they’re doing when they don’t.
But their knowledge is just not equal to the situation.
And the answer isn’t in studying more or reading more.
It’s in getting involved, in taking action.
Taking the very simplest first step.
Printing “Hello World!” to the screen.
Cheers,
Karthik Suresh
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