Can't remember where I got this from: "The author starts with a skeleton of an argument and turns it into prose. Your job is to take the prose and excavate the skeleton."
If the excavated skeleton is messy, either a) you're a bad reader, or b) the author is a shit thinker.
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Why can't we just trade skeletons. so many encoding x decoding happening.
Been wondering about "how can we enable lossless transfer of information between heads?"
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I've been wondering about that too. I think there's something cognitively important that happens during the excavating. I'm not entirely sure if it's transmissible.
(But then again I do book summaries on Commonplace, and people seem to like it?)
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