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
Still very strong in the construction industry. I was an electrician apprentice my self and currently have one with me now. You could sit in 100 lectures about wiring up a house. What you can't learn from reading is how to use a tool. That comes from doing.
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Replying to @Itsprofitable @naval
Yes. But you learn more than the use of a tool. "By watching the master and emulating his efforts in the presence of his example, the apprentice unconsciously picks up the rules of the art, including those which are not explicitly known to the master himself." ~ Michael Polanyi
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @naval
Great quote. Definitely you learn more than using tools. It's a very slow way of teaching but extremely valuable. The amount of tradesm that go on to start their own business is a sign of the success. I'm myself one who has benefited greatly from this form of teaching.
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Yes, this is what people miss. Mass public education has done tremendous things, but not without cost: it tends to reduce human understanding to what can be put into textbooks, and teaching and learning to lectures and homework. That which doesn't fit into the paradigm gets lost.
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