Am I the only one who finds "helpful" meta-information like summary bullet points, key-points graphics etc. actively unhelpful in mastering a brief/wonky material? I'd almost rather have a basic narrative with minimal structuring that I can read serially and summarize for myself
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If someone already made it legible it’s too late to learn it your way, talked about this somewhere
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I heard it described by an instructional designer that our brain needs to be able to "throw away" some info to value what remains. When it's pre-summarized there's nothing to throw away, and thus nothing to engage with
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Precisely, a list of empty abstractions with no disambiguation help from context or narrative
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Gets in the way of reverse engineering. Also bad metaphors, which are a running joke re haskell tutorials





