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It's just me paraphrasing. You have to take my word that the talk is much more interesting. Although it does boils down to that, he spoke for an hour recounting
by amasad 11y ago
It's just me paraphrasing. You have to take my word that the talk is much more interesting. Although it does boils down to that, he spoke for an hour recounting ideas from game development and rocket science that he applied this on.
- ramkarthikk 11y agoThis is one of the reasons I don't always support TLDRs or the apps that try to read an article and give you the important points. Yes, most of the articles can be explained in a sentence or two. But then there are articles or talks from which you take away new points every time you read it/re-read it. Your article is important for people who didn't have the privilege to listen to the talk (like me). So thank you for writing. It would also be interesting to read the takeaways of other people in the room even though the talk could be boiled down to "Tearing down ideas".
- amasad 11y agoTotally. Take Antifragile for example, the "boiled down" version is a paragraph length, but it took a book for me to really internalize it. There is a big difference between getting the tl;dr of something and actually internalizing it. The latter takes a many examples, and takes looking at the subject in multiple ways and through different lenses. Which reminds me of a famous quote by the late Marvin Minsky: "You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."