And also even when it's all on the internet, there's a lot of tacit knowledge in how to engage with it. Part of why all the different academic disciplines are so hard to read from the outside is that there's a language coevolved with the field, and nobody publishes dictionaries.
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Often the skill you can learn, which is highly lucrative, is not the expertise but the ability to present a facsimile of it to others who lack it, and that works reasonably well without actually having to understand - it can even work better, because you avoid curse of knowledge.
Great thread. FWIW I think almost everyone has very bad, even laughable assumptions about what “information” is, what “knowledge” is, what “learning” is and what “the internet” is so it’s always gonna be a shit show innit.
