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Andy Matuschak 30. pro
One way to dream up post-book media to make reading more effective and meaningful is to systematize "expert" practices (e.g. How to Read a Book), so more people can do them, more reliably and more cheaply. But… the most erudite people I know don't actually do those things!
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Andy Matuschak 30. pro
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There's a funny response curve: folks who are super-diligent about note-taking practices or building simulations seem to generally end up with less insight than their somewhat-less-diligent neighbors. Maybe it's a explore/exploit thing? Or maybe just a wonk/gestalt thing?
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Andy Matuschak 30. pro
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The best theory I have is something like: it takes so much effort to do these "expert" reading practices now that such readers burn their willpower and mental energy on running those processes, rather than on the ideas themselves. But I don't know! Gives me pause!
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Geoffrey Litt 30. pro
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I've noticed this too! Maybe explicit practices are good scaffolding up to intermediate, but experts can break the rules after mastering them? Or, certain people have natural tendencies (eg habits from childhood) so they don't need the practices?
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Geoffrey Litt
I think "what's helpful for the average person to improve by 2x" and "what are the top 1% doing" have different answers in many fields (also FWIW, I credit "how to read a book" with improving my reading ability by 2x!)
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Geoffrey Litt 30. pro
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Another theory: maybe certain contexts (like writing about what you read) provide incentives that make the practices less necessary? Amateurs use productivity hacks, pros are on a deadline so they have no choice
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