Best article I’ve read on how notetaking software can help people rapidly develop expertise
Specifically, it lays the conceptual groundwork for why backlinking and blocks (“fragments”) are effective for mastering uncertain domains
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Bravo, . An excellent take. Putting this one in my back pocket as an antidote to the increasing rate of first-principles-obsessed, mental-model-for-everything thinking I seem to see happening.
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Thank you! But we have to give credit where credit is due — Rand Spiro and his colleagues came up with the theory in 1988, and they’ve done the bulk of the work chasing down all the implications. 🙇♂️
Of course. But you did a masterful job distilling it down here, as usual. Always enjoy your work
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