With regard to almost any topic, you're 3-5 books away from having a productive conversation with a foremost expert and quite possibly teaching him or her something new. And this compounds — forever
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Major difference between superficial conversation and making any sort of valuable contribution to a field. Anyone who has ever interviewed or hired people will know this first hand.
Most people can't make this distinction, and the ones that do hire plenty of autodidacts.
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(If they're incentivized to actually make good hires, which many aren't. "They can't blame me for going with the Harvard kid" is what drives a lot of legacy org hiring. Why? Because interviews are notoriously bad predictors of job performance.)
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Agreed!
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I’m not questioning that people can become experts on their own. I meant to say that expertise (should?) include “low-level” skills and knowledge, most of which requires practice and thus difficult to attain by reading alone.
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