A friend shared a post from someone else that was talking about this article. I’ve quoted the text from that post below:

This is a 1996 guide on how to help someone use a computer. It’s strikingly resonant with ‘how to be a parent’, or really ‘how to help anyone with anything’. A nice example of “the universal within the particular”

  • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    24·
    2 年前

    In particular, I think there are parts of this guide that are relevant to how we introduce new technologies to other people, be it privacy tools or the Fediverse.

    • Chozo@fedia.io
      14·
      2 年前

      Honestly, everything here is great advice for teaching anything to somebody. I’m about to be involved with my company’s training soon, and I’m saving this article to refer to when I start writing our materials.

      • kreekybonez@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 年前

        I’m trying to take a more active roll in training new machines operators at my job, and it’s only because the current training manager actively does the opposite of 90% of the stuff on this list. I’m getting tired of being called in to “fix” stuff that’s just an error of bad training.