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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Classical music is another place where the culture of apprenticeship remains strong. No one expects to become a concert violinist by reading textbooks, attending lectures, and turning in homework assignments. And behold the extraordinarily high standards maintained in that world.
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The fragility of cultural practices like apprenticeship is never sufficiently appreciated. Their long history in no way assures their continuance. They must be passed down to survive, and so may vanish altogether in a single generation. Once lost, they tend to stay lost.
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"It is pathetic to watch the endless efforts - equipped with microscopy and chemistry, with mathematics and electronics - to reproduce a single violin of the kind the half-literate Stradivarius turned out as a matter of course more than 200 years ago." ~ Michael Polyani
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