Learning

I like learning new things. It’s sort of my toxic trait – I would rather learn something new than master the existing thing I know. It’s probably ADHD-related – God knows everything else in my chaos-Muppet existence is.

Like, last night I came across a video of someone silver-soldering a ring, and ended up in a rabbit hole on YouTube watching folks make jewlery, and now maybe I want to learn how to do that?

So anyway, one cool thing about shifting to micro.blog is that I have to learn new skills – like writing in Markdown.

Over the holidays, I saw several examples of people over 50 not knowing how to do something that involved technology (like, how to change contact info on a phone) and them asking a younger person to do it for them. NOT to teach them how, but to do it for them.

I never want to be that person. I love learning things. I hope I always will. My biggest fear is to be the person that refuses to learn.