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'Programmers have a pavlovian engineering response. Pose them a problem and they'll start trying to solve it.'

One of the truest statements I've read in a long while.

(Learning when not to solve a problem is one of the hardest things I've learnt.)

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This is the same formula to get people's attention in short-form videos. You first show the end result, then roll it on how it got to that result.

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I’ve been using this approach for a while; it works. TV industry pioneered it with the car chase opens.

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I mean, the ancient Greeks knew about it. I love studying traditional rhetoric.

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This tip is gold, both as a data-scientist-in-training and as a senior high school computing teacher. Thanks!

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Nice analogy with the book -- got me curious to read it, btw.

It's a similar approach as the Minto Pyramid, used in mckinsey's presentation -- where you're supposed to start with the recommendation and then open up to context.

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Also this formula can enhance the effectiveness of articles and post or any learning contents, capturing the user's interest right from the beginning.

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> Also in Portuguese 'presos' means 'jailed men'

And in Spanish, Catalan, Valencian...

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You lost me at 'presos'

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I gather it to be short for 'presentations', but could not factor how that shortening is construed...

I had to reread a couple times the sentence to grok it.

Also in Portuguese 'presos' means 'jailed men' so makes for a very bad association on first reading...

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Oooh that's what it means! I was confused but just read on; as non-native speaker I find it hard to get such shortenings spontaneously.

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