I need to be better at translating my reading into writing again. I was doing very well for a while but that's lapsed
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I take rough notes on much of my research reading, usually boiling down to “this was not very good because X”. Have recently started wondering whether to put these online, somewhat in the spirit of publishing null results.
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I'd definitely like to read them - the ones you've emailed have been good! I'm really inconsistent. Sometimes I write lots, sometimes nothing - there's no system. The newsletter is good for ensuring that some stuff gets written up at least.
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I’ve been forcing myself to be more consistent than every before, certainly than since my phd, because so much is relevant from so many disparate fields. and I can’t keep even the gist in my head anymore.
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Part of why I don't is that my first pass read is really a scan and raid for concepts. This is why I have the rereading shelves so I can properly figure them out after.
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Right. And for nearly everything, that’s all that is worth doing. I’m having to force myself to read a lot of stuff in a lot more detail than I want to in order to be sure I understand a slew of foreign fields adequately. It’s not much fun! And falls out of my head quickly.
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Replying to @Meaningness @DRMacIver and
Something that ought to be taught explicitly to new grad students is that the main thing you do in reading a paper in your own field is zero in on why it is either wrong or irrelevant to your project, so you can avoid reading the rest of it. (Maybe you wrote this somewhere?)
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Replying to @Meaningness @DRMacIver and
There’s another whole skill that most people don’t have to learn because their work is within a clearly-defined discipline, which is “figure out the fundamental principles of field X, what it is good for, and [most important] what its limitations are.”
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Replying to @Meaningness @drossbucket
Have you encountered the idea of "threshold concepts"? It's an education theory thing but when I encountered it it occurred to me this might be a good way to engage with a new field - find out the threshold concepts in it and just learn those
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They're not quite what you're talking about but might be a good way to identify them, and you get X education people writing about them rather than X people, so maybe less triumphalist
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What’s exciting about the framework is its emphasis on transformation of the way you think (rather than learning discrete bits of “knowledge”).
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