Hmm makes me realize I’ve unconsciously concluded “books don’t work” (as a technology) for a while now. This is partly why I’ve been dragging my feet on book-length projects. There’s other reasons and demons, but this is a big one and has nothing to do with me personally.
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I read this yesterday and thought about it and I'm generally unimpressed. I would have loved to see an in-depth teardown of the quantum computing book and why they believe it solves the issue, rather than a series of good, but existing questions
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My main critique of trying to make books into some sort of substitute for full-fledged classroom experiences is that isn't the JTBD. Books should focus on maintaining momentum and flow, thus maximizing interest and pleasure, thus sparking further discovery
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GEB artfully uses some of the techniques mentioned in the last section. Even spaced repetition feels natural when you come back to an idea discussed previously in a musical canon-like way.
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A Pattern Language also employs a unique non-linear navigation. For more theories on reading, see: - What We See When We Read - Breaking The Page - Baldar Bjarnason - Finally, Fish:https://www.robinsloan.com/fish/
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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.