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The meaning of anything derives from how it's connected to everything else in your mind. As such, *learning* is the art of creating connections between new knowledge and what you already know. The more you know, the richer and deeper the meaning of any new information you receive
A practical consequence of this is that diving into a new field should always be done breadth-first, not depth-first. You will learn faster and more effectively if you can connect new specialized information to a broad overview of your field.
Absent that broad overview, your learning of the field is stunted. Absent a broad, diverse culture, your mind itself is stunted.
New field may not be connected to anything known before(may be you won't understand) or may lead to unlearning.
Not to mention the mental exhaustion you will face diving depth-first. Learned that lesson the hard way.
I use a technique for learning where I go deep first for a while, then zoom back out to get a broad overview. I need examples first, and only then I can understand the abstract. The tricky part is to stay sane while you drive deep at first and get totally lost
When you go deep into a new field, you find all the concepts that have no connection to previous knowledge. You keep them in a little mental list. Then when you zoom back out, you can start connecting them. It's a bit like exploration in RL I guess. Or "priming" for learning
While I appreciate the argument, it seems contrary to another quote I read: "Abstracting away details is a great way to revise something but a bad way to learn it the first time".
Have you read Range? Great book on this subject.
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