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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. andymatuschak.org/books/
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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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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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