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I think people should be really gentle with themselves when they're trying to learn something and they just can't connect to the materials/teachers they have. There are lots of possible reasons for this, but a very real & neglected possibility is just a lack of chemistry
(Maybe this is why so many textbooks suck? In the interest of accessibility(?), any hint of individual tone, tangents, asides, personal examples, etc. are completely stripped. You get the feeling you're not meant to connect, but only receive. The social animal is left hungry.)
I think one of the reasons so many people enjoyed my livestream on Minsky is that I feel really close to him. It's obvious. In the book, one of the other authors mentions having a Minsky with him in his mind. I feel this way about many favorite writershttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YcJT3OM4qQE …
Excellent framing.
For most science and math classes, the source doesn’t matter, the concepts are the same. If I didn’t connect with the book or teacher I’d find some corner of the internet or peer that “spoke my language.” I think Khan Academy caught on because of the tangents and asides
Contrary to what some autodidacts like us actually do, textbooks are precisely *not* intended to be used without being part of a class. The social animal should be talking with the teacher.
The "depersonalized" nature of textbooks is so that the teacher/professor can tailor it to each particular class. That's part of why textbooks have so many chapters and exercises that never get used--so the prof can pick and choose without having to supplement from the outside.
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. https://andymatuschak.org/books/ Yes — another big factor is that the customer of textbooks is not the user, and so the authors are not optimizing for teaching efficiency, they’re optimizing for resonance with their peers at best, status at worst
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