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It's a system for automating learning. You have thirty books. Instead of taking a month for each book, getting value sequentially, you read all thirty books at
by caslon 4y ago
It's a system for automating learning.
You have thirty books. Instead of taking a month for each book, getting value sequentially, you read all thirty books at the same time, with the software splitting it up for you into tiny pieces, so you can soak them all in and get lots of knowledge simultaneously, rather than the sort of limited, controlled drip of knowledge from an individual work.
It's surprisingly useful for things like language learning, where you don't really start with much understanding but books intend for your ability to change while reading; that said, the author uses it for everything he consumes, even email.
It's pretty interesting, if you're of the belief that knowledge compounds, or if you just don't really have the patience or attention span for individual works. Certainly isn't for everyone, and if you aren't willing to make your own tooling, the existing tooling is pretty bad.
- sva_ 4y agoThis made me wonder, which languages would be best learned together. Probably a pairing like Italian, French, Spanish would work well, as they're all Latin languages. Or perhaps it would be better to pair some languages which have defining differences.
- harperlee 4y agoI think similar languages such as the ones you mention would be great; as a native spanish speaker I continue to find joyful coincidences and contrasts that help even better understanding my native tongue. For example, neither guardare (italian), nor regarder (french), have a direct reflection in spanish (guardar in spanish is to keep, or to look after, but not literally to look, which is mirar instead), but it is what a guardia does.
- malloryerik 4y agoI've found learning very similar languages simultaneously is tricky because cognates conflict with each other. Is it lemon or límon? It might be better to get good enough at one that you can intuitively distinguish it from the other, without pausing to reflect.