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>I grew up libraries of books and they've got google, but want to be lectured? Your son and his friends know you. Your experience is lived, and real, as real a
by Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
>I grew up libraries of books and they've got google, but want to be lectured?
Your son and his friends know you. Your experience is lived, and real, as real as you sitting next to them. Reading books is abstract, the language can be obscure, archaic, verbose, flowery, dense, etc. Your son and friends know how to read your emotions and communicate effectively with you. An hour of your stories could likely replace dozens to hundreds of hours of reading because you can tailor your stories on fly the in a way no author ever can.
- ci5er 6y agoThank you for that. (I'm not being glib.) EDIT: I think your learning style and mine are much different. I remember when I had to do a biological proposal to DARPA (I guess I didn't have to), I went to the University of Texas bookstore and got every book they had on molecular biology - and read them over two days at a Starbucks on the deck (beautiful day, but hot), and then wrote the proposal and had the interview. (I'm an EE,CS and Physics guy who knows jack-shit about molecular biology). I never figured I ever had time to talk to anybody as long as I had 30 vertical centimeters of books on the floor that had to be processed by dawn. Maybe it's a generational thing. Maybe I'm just broken.
- andrewflnr 6y agoWhatever you are, you're not broken if you can actually process 30cm of books in a few hours.