My view on why they attract me: I’m technically inclined. Loved maths and physics during school and college, where one basic, but fundamentally powerful idea, e

My view on why they attract me: I’m technically inclined. Loved maths and physics during school and college, where one basic, but fundamentally powerful idea, enabled to solve so many problems. It seemed knowledge distilled. You just apply and combine and operate, and boom: The Right Answer. Then picked a business book, where one idea is iterated for 100 pages. Looking it from different angles, explaining, examples, anecdotes. I’ll-tell-you-something-I’m-doing-it-I-told-you recursive sandwiches. “By the end of this book” nonsense. It seems facile, it does not demand pencil-and-paper work like in maths. Also, one idea per book? Wasted time. Finally a book comes that just lists ideas. Not very detailed. Seem very fundamental. It reminds a little bit of a maths cheatsheet, the minimal expression of the Maxwell equations that will solve all business issues. It sounds exciting! But as others noted: if you cannot work them, exercise them, and think formally through implications, it is cargo culting from maths. At least to an extent. (Sorry for the style im in my mobile)