This is very good. Cc @fortelabshttps://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1127268379901874176 …
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Books aren't suited to learning practical skills. The best ones however, provide a deeper background and context of a topic than any other medium.
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Books are the new business cards
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Tucker Max has a bunch to do with this
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Books don’t help people learn. Hmm. Building a course? :D
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No, trying to write a book
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Writing an expository book is valuable for the *writer* to develop an arsenal. I’ve had way more impact —as measured by people doing & thinking differently— secretly quoting my writing in person at juuuust the right moment, than people reading and changing their own minds.
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I think it’s because most of an expository book is setting up the context to deliver the punchline. Carry the punchline with you to unload at the right moment.
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Books were the pinnacle of education for a world two major technological changes behind this one. I've only bought four for educational purposes in the last decade, and all are gathering dust half-unread. (I still have an enduring love for fiction books, however.)
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Online documentation, various semi-synchronous group discussion tools (e.g. email, chat, StackOverflow), and easy-to-experiment environments have comprised the majority of my education. Of the three, the last seems the most "current", but also the most specialized.
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for me,
@Nsousanis’ Unflattening “works”. I think the “Introducing” series of graphic novels “work”. I think@akirathedon’s albums “work” I think koans and poems work. Business books and textbooks, especially, do NOT work. -
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@akirathedon - new to me!
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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.