Specific knowledge can't be taught, but can be learned. Knowledge that gets you paid. Identify your strengths and apply them to what you care about. Iterate at the edge of knowledge. Building it will feel like play to you, but look like work to others.https://startupboy.com/2019/03/25/specific-knowledge/ …
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Replying to @naval
With vanishingly few exceptions, this sort of knowledge is gained through apprenticeship, the sole means known to us for the faithful transmission of inarticulate understanding. But mass public education has undermined apprenticeship, just as mass production has undermined craft.
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @naval
Apprenticeship is itself a cultural practice; no one is born knowing how to train apprentices; it, like craft itself, must be learned by doing. But the tremendous efficiencies of mass public education have made the subtle and painstaking practice of apprenticeship seem backward.
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @naval
When masters themselves forget how to guide apprentices and persuade themselves that this onerous task is not their responsibility, learners are left to infer as much as they can of the tacit knowledge of masters from books and lectures and other dead things. It seldom goes well.
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As Henri Poincare so perceptively noted, "Les faits ne parlent pas." Erudition is not a substitute for understanding. Knowledge must have meaning; otherwise, it is empty and inert. But those for whom knowledge has meaning must want to share their understanding -- and be able to.
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