On the subject of writing again: I've always tended to approach new topics from an oblique angle. New things are best learned from afar.
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Often it's far more important to learn the fundamentals of a variety of other topics, so you understand what does and doesn't make sense.
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Take economists, for example:
It's easy to see how they get things so reliably wrong - they lack perspective, both internal and external.
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When you have this perspective, it's easy to see that many key premises of major fields are logically inconsistent or flat out wrong.
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Conversely, if you lack this perspective, you risk getting caught up in the reigning orthodoxy.
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