📣 New essay distilling one strand of some ongoing work✨
I argue that books lack a functioning model of how people learn—instead, they're (accidentally, invisibly) built around a model that's plainly false. Plus some early models for what to do about it.
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Convincing essay!
It reminded me of “Clear and Simple as the Truth”, a wonderful book on the unstated discursive assumptions of expositional prose, and of “The Little Lisper”, a Scheme tutorial written in an interactive dialog style.
(You probably know them already.)
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The latter is a favorite but the former is new to me; looking forward to reading! Thank you.